Terraform is a tool for managing the vCloud Director cloud infrastructure from the command line. This article demonstrates the installation and initial configuration in CentOS 7, but it is the same for the vast majority of Linux distributions. For a successful installation, you will need to have the wget and unzip utilities installed on your system.
First, let's update the system with one command:
sudo yum update
Next, let's install wget, unzip and the nano text editor (check the installation) with the command
sudo yum install wget unzip nano
Then download the latest (at the time of writing 0.12.20) version of Terraform from the developer's website
(https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html):
sudo wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.20/terraform_0.12.20_linux_amd64.zip
(note that this file is for the amd64 architecture)
The next step is to unzip:
sudo unzip ./terraform_0.12.20_linux_amd64.zip -d /usr/local/bin
The installation is finished, check the correctness with the command:
terraform -v
If it's done correctly, you should see a version of Terraform.
Next you need to create a directory where the working configuration will be:
mkdir test
Let's go to the directory we created:
cd test
Terraform uses configuration files with a .tf extension. Let's create a new configuration file and open it:
sudo nano test.tf
Enter the minimum set of variables for a successful connection:
provider "vcd" {
user = "your_login"
password = "your_password"
org = "organization name"
url = "https://vcd.cloud4y.ru"
}
Save the configuration and try to connect:
terraform init
If it's done correctly, you will get this answer:
Now you can manage your organization's cloud infrastructure from the command line.
