To enable preview feature of azure resource provider - azure-devops

Question

I would like to enable an azure preview feature via terraform. I have configured skip provider registration but when I tried to apply still get provider already exists error. I have to import manually as a workaround.
QUERY?:
do we must import manually to avoid provider exist error when register preview feature?
as I already define skip registration but seems it didn’t work.
Thanks!
======== configuration ========
Configure the Azure provider
terraform {
required_providers {
azurerm = {
source = "hashicorp/azurerm”
version = “~> 2.99"
}
}
required_version = “>= 1.1.0”
}
provider “azurerm” {
features {}
skip_provider_registration = true
}
resource “azurerm_resource_provider_registration” “example” {
name = “Microsoft.Network”
feature {
name = “AFWEnableNetworkRuleNameLogging”
registered = true
}
}
have configured to skip provider registration but when I tried to apply still get provider already exists.
======== error log
terraform apply main.tf plan
azurerm_resource_provider_registration.example: Creating…
╷
│ Error: A resource with the ID. “/subscriptions/xxxx-xxxx/providers/Microsoft.Network” already exists - to be managed via Terraform this resource needs to be imported into the State. Please see the resource documentation for “azurerm_resource_provider_registration” for more information.
Any solution on the above requirement to enable the preview feature of the corresponding namespace resource provider.

Answer 1

If the Terraform statefile already contains the relevant providers, we should import it first before making any changes. Then only Terraform will read the respective changes from statefile.
Step1:
Add below code in provider tf and main tf as below
provider tf file
terraform {
required_version = ">= 1.1.0"
required_providers {
azurerm = {
source = "hashicorp/azurerm"
version = "~> 2.99"
}
}
}
provider "azurerm" {
features {}
skip_provider_registration = true
}
main tf file as follows
resource "azurerm_resource_provider_registration" "example" {
name = "Microsoft.Network"
feature {
name = "AFWEnableNetworkRuleNameLogging"
registered = true
}
}
Step2:
Run bellow commands
terraform plan
Run below command
terraform apply -auto-approve
NOTE:
if error saying its "already exists - to be managed via Terraform this resource needs to be imported into the State." then please run below command to import the respective service via terraform
terraform import azurerm_resource_provider_registration.example /subscriptions/************************/providers/Microsoft.Network
Output as follows:
Step3:
run below commands
terraform plan
terraform apply -auto-approve