VMware vSphere Terraform Deployment

This repository contains files for deploying virtual machines on a VMware vSphere environment. The deployment is customizable using variables that you can define in your defaults.tfvars file or pass them through the command line when running Terraform commands.

Prerequisites

• Terraform installed on your local machine
• VMware vSphere environment with necessary permissions to create resources
• VMware vSphere provider for Terraform (automatically installed when running terraform init)

Configuration

1. Clone this repository or download the Terraform configuration files.

2. Create a .tfvars file in the same directory as the Terraform configuration files, or update the provided defaults.tfvars file with your custom values.

3. Set the required variables in your .tfvars file or pass them as command line arguments when running Terraform commands. The required variables for defaults.tfvars are:

   • vsphere_user: The vSphere user with necessary permissions to create resources
   • vsphere_password: The password for the vSphere user
   • admin_user: The username for the virtual machine's OS
   • admin_password: The password for the virtual machine's OS user
   • vm_name : The hostname of the virtual machine
   • ip_addresses : The IPv4 address of the virtual machine. Leave blank if using DHCP.

Deployment

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory containing the Terraform configuration files.
2. Run terraform init to initialize the Terraform working directory and download the necessary provider plugins.
3. Run the following command to review the planned changes before applying them:

terraform plan
-var-file = <defaults.tfvars>
-var "vsphere_user = <vsphere_user>"
-var "vsphere_password = <vsphere_password>""
-var "admin_user = <admin_username>"
-var "admin_password = <password>"
-var "vm_name = <vm_name>"
-var "ip_addresses = [<list of ip addresses>]"

4. If the plan output looks correct and you want to proceed with the deployment, run the following command to apply the changes:

terraform apply
-var-file = <defaults.tfvars>
-var "vsphere_user = <vsphere_user>"
-var "vsphere_password = <vsphere_password>"
-var "admin_user = <admin_user>"
-var "admin_password = <admin_password>"
-var "vm_name = <vm_name>"
-var "ip_addresses = [<list of ip addresses>]"

5. Once the deployment is complete, you can verify the created resources in your vSphere environment.

Cleanup

To destroy the resources created by this Terraform configuration, run the following command:

terraform destroy
-var-file = <defaults.tfvars>
-var "vsphere_user = <vsphere_user>"
-var "vsphere_password = <vsphere_password>"
-var "admin_user = <admin_user>"
-var "admin_password = <admin_password>"
-var "vm_name = <vm_name>"
-var "ip_addresses = [<list of ip addresses>]"

Note: Destroying the resources will delete the virtual machines and associated resources from your vSphere environment. Be cautious when running this command.