Using Terraform to Deploy the Pure Storage VMware Appliance

Jul 30, 2021 Terraform VM Analytics vSphere Plugin
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Ive previously covered what’s new in the Pure Storage VMware Appliance and how to deploy it via PowerCLI, lets take a look at how to deploy the Pure Storage VMware Appliance using Terraform.

Pre-Requsites

Preparing to Execute the Runbook

In order to depoloy the Pure Storage VMware Appliance ics collector, we must first define variables to be used.

Execute the Runbook

  • The script is pretty straight forward, you will need to download the Appliance OVA to a local directory and fill in the appropriate variables on the configuration file. Terraform also supports a Remote OVF, but due to performance reasons I have find local to work better.
1git clone https://github.com/dstamen/Terraform.git #Clone the Github Repository
2cd Terraform/deploy-pureova #Change to Runbook Directory
3terraform init #Initialize and install the provider if needed
4terraform plan #Validate the run book will work
5terraform apply #Deploy your VM!

Conclusion

Options are great, want to use the UI? Check! Want to use Powershell? Check! Want to use Terraform? Check!

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