If you are interested in using Terraform and having Nectar has one of your cloud providers, below is how you can get started.

  1. Install Terraform

  2. Create an example.tf in it’s own directory, with the following config. Substitute in your credentials

     # Configure the OpenStack Provider
 provider "openstack" {
   user_name   = "<user_name>"
   tenant_name = "<project_name>"
   password    = "<password>"
   auth_url    = "https://keystone.rc.nectar.org.au:5000/v3"
   domain_name = "Default"
 }

 # Create a web server
 resource "openstack_compute_instance_v2" "test-server" {
   name      = "<instance_name>"
   image_id  = "e4d127a9-458e-42a6-8401-2221e7fdc581" # Ubuntu 16.04
   flavor_id = "7da7cebe-68d1-4838-9c2a-c091c087bdbb" # m2.xsmall
   key_pair  = "<key_name>"
 }

  3. Run the following

     $ terraform init
 $ terraform apply

  4. You should see an instance being created like so.

     openstack_compute_instance_v2.test-server: Creating...
   access_ip_v4:        "" => "<computed>"
   access_ip_v6:        "" => "<computed>"
   all_metadata.%:      "" => "<computed>"
   availability_zone:   "" => "<computed>"
   flavor_id:           "" => "7da7cebe-68d1-4838-9c2a-c091c087bdbb"
   flavor_name:         "" => "<computed>"
   force_delete:        "" => "false"
   image_id:            "" => "e4d127a9-458e-42a6-8401-2221e7fdc581"
   image_name:          "" => "<computed>"
   key_pair:            "" => "jake"
   name:                "" => "jake_terrainstance"
   network.#:           "" => "<computed>"
   region:              "" => "<computed>"
   security_groups.#:   "" => "<computed>"
   stop_before_destroy: "" => "false"
 openstack_compute_instance_v2.test-server: Still creating... (10s elapsed)
 openstack_compute_instance_v2.test-server: Still creating... (20s elapsed)
 openstack_compute_instance_v2.test-server: Still creating... (30s elapsed)
 openstack_compute_instance_v2.test-server: Still creating... (40s elapsed)
 openstack_compute_instance_v2.test-server: Creation complete after 43s (ID:
 3f1799d3-0b62-4849-922b-b793eb398021)

 Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

  5. That’s it! Enjoy your new instance!

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