Support for Digital Twins

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Description

Azure Digital Twins is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that enables the creation of knowledge graphs based on digital models of entire environments.

In an Azure Digital Twins solution, the entities in your environment are represented by Azure digital twins. A digital twin is an instance of one of your custom-defined models. It can be connected to other digital twins via relationships to form a twin graph: this twin graph is the representation of your entire environment.

The data in your Azure Digital Twins model can be routed to downstream Azure services for additional analytics or storage. This is provided through event routes, which use Event Hub, Event Grid, or Service Bus to drive your desired data flows.

There are two major cases for sending Azure Digital Twins data:

1. Sending data from one twin in the Azure Digital Twins graph to another. For instance, when a property on one digital twin changes, you may want to notify and update another digital twin accordingly.
2. Sending data to downstream data services for additional storage or processing (also known as data egress). For instance,
   2.1 A hospital may want to send Azure Digital Twins event data to Time Series Insights (TSI), to record time series data of handwashing-related events for bulk analytics.
   2.2 A business that is already using Azure Maps may want to use Azure Digital Twins to enhance their solution. They can quickly enable an Azure Map after setting up Azure Digital Twins, bring Azure Map entities into Azure Digital Twins as digital twins in the twin graph, or run powerful queries leveraging their Azure Maps and Azure Digital Twins data together.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_iothub_digital_twins
• azurerm_iothub_digital_twins_endpoint_eventhub
• azurerm_iothub_digital_twins_endpoint_eventgrid
• azurerm_iothub_digital_twins_endpoint_servicebus

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "azurerm_iothub_digital_twins" "test" {
  name                = "acctest-DT"
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.test.name
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.test.location
}

References

• #https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/digital-twins/concepts-twins-graph
• #https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/digital-twins/concepts-route-events

[ghost]

This has been released in version 2.38.0 of the provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading. As an example:

provider "azurerm" {
    version = "~> 2.38.0"
}
# ... other configuration ...

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