physical servers

[Geoff O'Callaghan]

can anyone point me to doco that shows me how I'd manage physical server provisioning with terraform.

thanks
geoff

[Andrew Langhorn]

Geoff,

Terraform doesn't currently support physical servers - it only supports those services for which a Terraform provider is available, so IaaS, like AWS, PaaS, like Heroku, and infrastructure-related SaaS products, like CloudFlare, usually.

You might want to look at something like Razor from Puppet Labs instead.

Andrew

geoff

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[Geoff O'Callaghan]

On 03/04/2015 10:57 PM, "Andrew Langhorn" <andrew....@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> Geoff,
>
> Terraform doesn't currently support physical servers - it only supports those services for which a Terraform provider is available, so IaaS, like AWS, PaaS, like Heroku, and infrastructure-related SaaS products, like CloudFlare, usually.

hey Andrew

thanks for the reply.   this is what I expected but since the terraform web website says

" Terraform provides a common configuration to launch infrastructure — from physical and virtual servers to email and DNS providers. "

I thought I'd better check.  perhaps I can write a provider for xcat

tks
geoff

[Andrew Langhorn]

So, actually, my original answer may not have been entirely accurate. Assuming you have an OpenStack cluster, you could use Terraform to provision instances on that - you're making virtual instances on your physical nodes. Or you could bring up containers on your physical nodes using the Docker provider.

[Armon Dadgar]

I should also mention that eventually we want to support tools like Foreman and Cobbler so that

even physical hardware can be managed with Terraform. This would allows physical hardware to

be managed even without OpenStack.

Best Regards,

Armon Dadgar

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[Matthew Wilmott]

We'd also be very interested in a foreman provider

[hunter morgan]

but you can use `null_resource` to do so, right?
```

resource "null_resource" "remote" {

  triggers = {

    host = "${var.host}"

  }

  connection {

    host = "${var.host}"

  }

  provisioner "remote-exec" {

    inline = ["echo ${var.host}"]

  }

}

```