hmalphettes / terraform-provider-vra

Terraform provider for VMware vRealize Automation

Terraform provider for VMware vRealize Automation

Introduction

A self-contained deployable integration between Terraform and VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) which allows Terraform users to request and provision vRA IaaS resources such as machine, network, load_balancer, along with initial setup of cloud accounts, zones, and projects. This provider supports vRealize Automation Cloud (SaaS) and vRealize 8 (on-prem). There is a separate provider available for vRealize Automation 7.x

Requirements

To get the vra plugin up and running you need the following things.

• Terraform 0.12 or above
• Go Language 1.12 or above

Installing the provider

The provider is currently considered a third-party provider and thus isn't installed automatically by terraform. See Installing the vRA Terraform provider for instructions on how to install it.

Using the provider

There are some one time setup needed to begin using the IaaS resources. This may already be done by administrators or can be done via terraform as well.

Cloud Accounts

Because vRA works across multiple clouds, a cloud account with credentials must first be setup. Follow these examples for setting up specific cloud accounts:

• Setup cloud_account_aws
• Setup cloud_account_azure
• Setup cloud_account_vsphere

Zones

While the cloud account examples included setting up zones, here is an example to setup a zone:

• Setup zone

Projects

While the cloud account examples included setting up a project, here is an example to setup a project:

• Setup project

Flavor mappings

Flavor profile represents a structure that holds flavor mappings defined for the corresponding cloud end-point region.

• Setup flavor_profile

Image mappings

Image profile represents a structure that holds a list of image mappings defined for the particular region.

• Setup image_profile

Machine

• Setup machine

Upgrading the provider

The vra provider doesn't upgrade automatically once you've started using it. After a new release you can run

terraform init -upgrade

Execution

These are the Terraform commands that can be used for the vRA plugin:

• terraform init - The init command is used to initialize a working directory containing Terraform configuration files.
• terraform plan - Plan command shows plan for resources like how many resources will be provisioned and how many will be destroyed.
• terraform apply - apply is responsible to execute actual calls to provision resources.
• terraform refresh - By using the refresh command you can check the status of the request.
• terraform show - show will set a console output for resource configuration and request status.
• terraform destroy - destroy command will destroy all the resources present in terraform configuration file.
• terraform import - import existing infrastructure into terraforrm state file to manage from current workspace.

Navigate to the location where main.tf and binary are placed and use the above commands as needed.

Contributing

The terraform-provider-vra project team welcomes contributions from the community. Before you start working with terraform-provider-vra, please read our Developer Certificate of Origin. All contributions to this repository must be signed as described on that page. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. For more detailed information, refer to CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

terraform-provider-vra is available under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0 license.