README.md

machine example

This is an example on how to create a cloud agnostic machine along with an image and a flavor profile. Image profile represents a structure that holds a list of image mappings defined for the particular region. Flavor profile represents a structure that holds flavor mappings defined for the corresponding cloud end-point region.

Getting Started

There are variables which need to be added to terraform.tfvars. The first are for connecting to the vRealize Automation (vRA) endpoint. There are names of cloud_account, region, zone, project, already setup in vRA.

• url - The URL for the vRealize Automation (vRA) endpoint
• refresh_token - The refresh token for the vRA account
• cloud_account - The name of the cloud account added in vRA
• region - The region within in the cloud account
• zone - The compute placement zone within a region where machines can be placed
• project - The name of the project the current user belongs to
• image_name - The name of the fabric image corresponding to the cloud endpoint, such as ami-id for AWS.
• network_name - Fabric network name in the cloud endpoint.

To facilitate adding these variables, a sample tfvars file can be copied first:

cp terraform.tfvars.sample terraform.tfvars

To create a cloud-agnostic machine, a cloud account, zone, project, image and flavor profile must be setup. This is an example to create an image and a flavor profile and then create a machine.

Follow these examples for setting up specific cloud accounts:

• Setup cloud_account_aws
• Setup cloud_account_azure
• Setup cloud_account_gcp
• Setup cloud_account_vsphere

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

• Setup zone

To create a project, here is an example

• Setup project

Once the information is added to terraform.tfvars, the image profile, flavor profile and machine can be created via:

terraform init
terraform apply