from Bitbucket to TFS #realquick #memo

I had to do a move from Bitbucket to TFS

 

It was done without pain… There were few steps :

git clone –bare
git push –mirror
git rm –cached

REDACTION IN PROGRESS

Clone VMs by snap fingers – Terraform and vSphere

In the past, I played with Terraform but it was not in a professional context 

Now, I had to use it for my job with vSphere :)

Not a big deal ! 

I wanted to create a bunch of VMs from a template, the configuration is simple, you have to “declare” :

• a datacenter
• a resource pool
• a host
• a datastore
• a network
• a template
• a FOLDER

Before to continue, I want to talk about the FOLDER… I had to use this resource for creating my VMs, otherwise it was not possible :/

resource “vsphere_folder” “folder” {
path = “XX/XX/testing-infra”
type = “vm”
datacenter_id = “${data.vsphere_datacenter.dc.id}”
}

In other terms, I don’t know how to add VMs to an existing folder, so each time I have new friend !

For the rest of the configuration, you have to use “count” with the number of your choice :

resource “vsphere_virtual_machine” “vm” {
count  = 3
name = “${var.servername}-${count.index + 1}”
num_cpus = 2
memory = 2048
datastore_id = “${data.vsphere_datastore.datastore.id}”
host_system_id = “${data.vsphere_host.host.id}”
resource_pool_id = “${data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id}”
guest_id = “${data.vsphere_virtual_machine.template.guest_id}”
scsi_type = “${data.vsphere_virtual_machine.template.scsi_type}”
folder = “${vsphere_folder.folder.path}“

Then you can add the variable ${count.index + 1}” to increment automatically the name of your VMs for example or the hostname, IP address and so on.

You can have a look in my repo. There are two files :

• main.tf, the playbook
• variables.tf, the variables defined in main.tf like this “${var.vsphere_user}” for the user by example.

Fill Log me in

Logs are important and you know it :

export TF_LOG=”TRACE”
export TF_LOG_PATH=”terraform.txt”

Plug me in

I almost forgot to talk about the plugin vSphere for Terraform :p

You can take it here

Then after the unzip, put it in this directory :

.terraform/plugins/linux_amd64

The folder .terraform should be in a directory with main.tf and variables.tf

Happy Three Friends

./terraform init
./terraform plan
./terraform apply

Commands to run the playbook :

• init, to fetch the provider before deploying for example and in our case it’s about vSphere
• plan, to validate the plan
• apply, to apply the plan

Mea Culpa

As you can see, I’m not an expert and you can find easily more information about this topic but I hope I will help you to start your journey :) I am only a small INN where you can have a rest and good time !

On board !