Terraform Support for Metal Cloud Now Available

Terraform is a free open-source infrastructure as code software tool that enables users to define and provision a data center infrastructure through the use of Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL), or JSON. With Terraform you can safely and predictably make changes to your infrastructures.

Write a resource definition file describing your infrastructure, network, Firewall rules, etc. in Terraform, and hit:

terraform init

terraform apply

Since Terraform now also offers support for Metal Cloud, this is how the resource definition file looks like:

provider "metalcloud" {
  user_email = var.user_email
  api_key = var.api_key
  endpoint = var.endpoint
}


resource "metalcloud_infrastructure" "my-infra216" {
  infrastructure_label = "my-terraform-infra216"
  datacenter_name = var.datacenter

  network {
    network_type = "san"
    network_label = "san"
  }

  network {
    network_type = "wan"
    network_label = "internet"
  }


  network {
    network_type = "lan"
    network_label = "private"
  }

  instance_array {
    instance_array_label = "example-master"
    instance_array_instance_count = 2
    instance_array_ram_gbytes = 8
    instance_array_processor_count = 1
    instance_array_processor_core_count = 8

    interface {
      interface_index = 0
      network_label = "san"
    }

    interface {
      interface_index = 1
      network_label = "internet"
    }

    interface {
      interface_index = 2
      network_label = "private"
    }

    drive_array {
      drive_array_label = "example-master-os-drive"
      drive_array_storage_type = "iscsi_hdd"
      drive_size_mbytes_default = 49000
      volume_template_id = tonumber(data.metalcloud_volume_template.centos76.id)
    }

    firewall_rule {
      firewall_rule_description = "test fw rule"
      firewall_rule_port_range_start = 22
      firewall_rule_port_range_end = 22
      firewall_rule_source_ip_address_range_start="0.0.0.0"
      firewall_rule_source_ip_address_range_end="0.0.0.0"
      firewall_rule_protocol="tcp"
      firewall_rule_ip_address_type="ipv4"
    }
  }
}