Hashicorp Terraform

Date Added Description Link
2019-11-26 Terraform Docs https://www.terraform.io/docs
2019-11-29 tf 0.12 release notes https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/terraform-0-12-14-released/3898
2019-11-29 Vault Provider https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/vault/index.html
2019-11-29 Vault Generic Secret Provider https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/vault/d/generic_secret.html
2019-11-29 Terraform clone on vsphere https://sdorsett.github.io/post/2018-12-24-using-terraform-to-clone-a-virtual-machine-on-vsphere/
2019-11-29 tf issues https://itnext.io/things-i-wish-i-knew-about-terraform-before-jumping-into-it-43ee92a9dd65
2019-11-29 local and remote exec provisioners https://sdorsett.github.io/post/2018-12-26-using-local-exec-and-remote-exec-provisioners-with-terraform/
2019-11-29 simple k8s example https://github.com/vmware/simple-k8s-test-env/blob/master/e2e/vsphere.tf
2019-12-1 terraform and vsphere with cloudinit examples https://floating.io/2019/04/iaas-terraform-and-vsphere/

running

terraform init

terraform plan
TF_LOG=TRACE terraform plan

terraform apply -auto-approve

terraform destroy -auto-approve

debugging

# show the actual config that was deployed, useful for debugging cloud-init parameters.
terraform show

configuration files

main.tf

variables.tf

outputs.tf

tfvars

fffffuuu

interpolation only syntax changed in 0.12 (20191113)

also, fucking strings vs integers

a.k.a no quotes on values in either the tfvars or the .tf file. beacuse fuck you thats why.

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/terraform-0-12-14-released/3898 https://www.terraform.io/upgrade-guides/0-12.html#referring-to-list-variables

also that ^M shit in tmux terminal. wtf.

terraform with vault is fucking broken, generic_secret requires a namespace? wtf?

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-vault/issues/470

cloning vm image with larger size breaks

Error: error reconfiguring virtual machine: error reconfiguring virtual machine: File is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore “

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1012384

cloudinit notes

some example stuff:

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-vsphere/issues/588 https://github.com/akutz/yake2e/blob/master/vsphere.tf#L102 https://github.com/akutz/yake2e/blob/master/cloud_config.tf

notes

even standalone esxi servers have resource pools, as do vcenter ones…

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/vsphere/d/resource_pool.html

data "vsphere_resource_pool" "pool" {
  name          = "esxi1/Resources"
  datacenter_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.dc.id}"
}

whats the difference? is this why partitioning broke?

expected scsi_type to be one of pvscsi lsilogic lsilogic-sas

whats the difference?

expected network_interface.0.adapter_type to be one of [e1000 e1000e vmxnet3],