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[https://www.terraform.io/ Terraform] is a tool for defining and provisioning | [https://www.terraform.io/ Terraform] is a tool for defining and provisioning data centre infrastructure, including virtual machines. Terraform is seeing growing use within the Compute Canada Federation. Its infrastructure-as-code model allows one to maintain OpenStack resources as a collection of definitions which can be easily updated using favourite text editors, shared among members of a group, and stored in version control. | ||
This page is written as a tutorial in which we introduce Terraform and demonstrate its use on our OpenStack clouds. We set up our local workspace for Terraform and create a VM with a floating IP and attached volume. | This page is written as a tutorial in which we introduce Terraform and demonstrate its use on our OpenStack clouds. We set up our local workspace for Terraform and create a VM with a floating IP and attached volume. |