Create an Azure Service Principal =>

az ad sp create-for-rbac --name \ --role Contributor \ --scopes /subscriptions/ Replace with your service principal name. 

Build the Docker image used to run Ansible

docker build . -t ansible

Start the Ansible container.

docker run -it ansible run => ansible --version 

Assign the following environment variables to connect to Azure:

export AZURE_TENANT="" export AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID="" export AZURE_CLIENT_ID="" export AZURE_SECRET="" 

Test Ansible connection - Run the following Ansible command to create a resource group:

ansible localhost -m azure_rm_resourcegroup -a 'name=myResourceGroup location=eastus'