Support for stop Application Gateway

[TadeoCloud]

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Description

Add ability to shutdown (stop) application gateway resource like AZ CLI does:

az network application-gateway stop -n appgw_name -g rg_name

New or Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_application_gateway

[sebader]

Terraform does not control any resources in such a way.

[TadeoCloud]

I know, but is so useful creating a VM, Appgw or other resources with the initial status set to stopped.

P.ex.:

resource "azurerm_application_gateway" "network" {
  name                = "example-appgateway"
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  
  operational_state    = "stopped"

[tombuildsstuff]

@TadeoCloud what's the use-case for having this stopped at creation time here?

[TadeoCloud]

@TadeoCloud what's the use-case for having this stopped at creation time here?

Some use-case could be:

• To have Disaster Recovery Infrastructure deployed (Active/Passive) and ready to be used if there is a problem with the main region but turned off to save costs
• To save money while preparing to use other infrastructure elements
• To have some DEV/QA environment turned off since it is only used on certain occasions.

[dsab123]

This would be highly desirable.

To achieve this in the meantime, I'm going to follow this blogpost which details how to deploy a function app that stops the app gateway on a schedule.