In order to store state remotely terraform has a config block that allows you point to a cloud resource. This article shows how to do it in Azure.
In a nutshell, it instructs the reader to use some AZ powershell commands to provision the resources.
Isn't the idea of Terraform to do the opposite of manual creation of resources? If this is true, what is a better way to do this? If its not, and I've misunderstood something, please clarify what it is that I missed.
Background: working on a greenfield application with nothing provisioned other than a git repo to store the tf files. Attempting to provision an azure static web site.