Error creating resource "Azure Bot" via Terraform

Question

I tried to create an "Azure Bot" via Terraform using these instructions: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest/docs/resources/bot_service_azure_bot

and recieved this error message:

To avoid any misunderstandings, this is the resource I would like to create via Terraform:

When I create the resource "Azure Bot" via portal, the microsoft_app_id is created automatically. Why does via Terraform the microsoft_app_id have to be assigned the client_id?

How can i solve the error "The Microsoft App ID is already registered to another bot application"?

Answer 1

I also received the same error when trying to create a web bot servise with terraform.

Two ways to resolve this conflict:

Approach-1:

Firstly, you can use random uuid resource as given below to generate the unique app Id while creating the bot resource.

resource "random_uuid" "appid" {}

But the above one might also fail in some environments.

Approach-2:

To make it work effectively, I have registered a new app under App registrations as shown below and allocated it to my Azure web bot service instead of creating it automatically with client_configblock.

Once it is done, I used the same one in my terraform code with the help of variable block as detailed below.

main.tf:

variable "microsoftappid" {
  type    = string
  default = "3072xxxxx8579"
}

data "azurerm_resource_group" "example" {
  name     = "Jahnavi"
}

resource "azurerm_application_insights" "example" {
  name                = "jahsights"
  location            = data.azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  resource_group_name = data.azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  application_type    = "web"
}

resource "azurerm_application_insights_api_key" "example" {
  name                    = "newapikey"
  application_insights_id = azurerm_application_insights.example.id
  read_permissions        = ["aggregate", "api", "draft", "extendqueries", "search"]
}

resource "azurerm_bot_service_azure_bot" "example" {
  name                = "jahazurebot"
  resource_group_name = data.azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  location            = "global"
  microsoft_app_id    = var.microsoftappid
  sku                 = "F0"

  endpoint                              = "https://example.com"
  developer_app_insights_api_key        = azurerm_application_insights_api_key.example.api_key
  developer_app_insights_application_id = azurerm_application_insights.example.app_id
}

Deployment succeeded:

Reference: Terraform registry template