azurerm_linux_virtual_machine doesn't allow "." in name

[plrca2]

Azure allows resource names to have "." as long as it's not the last character

[plrca2]

Relevant line
azurerm/internal/services/compute/validation.go:

                // The value can only contain alphanumeric characters and cannot start with a number.
                if matched := regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+$`).Match([]byte(v)); !matched {
                        errors = append(errors, fmt.Errorf("%q may only contain alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores", k))
                }

[plrca2]

diff --git a/azurerm/internal/services/compute/validation.go b/azurerm/internal/services/compute/validation.go
index be083dadf..f183ae3c1 100644
--- a/azurerm/internal/services/compute/validation.go
+++ b/azurerm/internal/services/compute/validation.go
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ func validateName(maxLength int) func(i interface{}, k string) (warnings []strin
                }
 
                // The value can only contain alphanumeric characters and cannot start with a number.
-               if matched := regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+$`).Match([]byte(v)); !matched {
+               if matched := regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+$`).Match([]byte(v)); !matched {
                        errors = append(errors, fmt.Errorf("%q may only contain alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores", k))
                }

[ArcturusZhang]

I submitted a PR that may resolve this.

[ghost]

This has been released in version 2.2.0 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 = "~> 2.2.0"
}
# ... other configuration ...

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