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Cloudify Terraform Plugin

This plugin provides the following functionality:

• Installation, configuration and uninstallation of Terraform itself
  • Terraform executable
  • Terraform providers and plugins
• Representation of Terraform modules as Cloudify nodes
• Refreshing Terraform state from the cloud
• Updating Terraform state and applying differences on the cloud

Prerequisites

The Terraform plugin can work with a pre-existing Terraform installation, or it can create a Terraform installation for you. In order to use a pre-existing Terraform installation, you will need to provide the relevant paths when defining the Terraform node templates (see below).

Module Source Specification

When defining a source for a Terraform URL, you can specify any of the following:

• URL to a Zip file
• URL to a tar.gz file
• Path to a Zip file
• Path to a tar.gz file
• URL to a Git repository (must end with .git)

Node Types

Two node types are provided:

• cloudify.nodes.terraform: represents the Terraform installation
• cloudify.nodes.terraform.Module: represents a Terraform module

Refer to the documentation in plugin.yaml for more information about the node types' properties.

cloudify.nodes.terraform.Module

This node type represents a Terraform module. Its lifecycle consists of:

• create: initializes Terraform by calling terraform init and terraform plan.
• configure: executes terraform state pull
• start: executes terraform apply
• delete: executes terraform destroy

At the end of start, a runtime property by the name resources is being set on the node instance, containing the exact dictionary provided by Terraform, representing the state.

In addition, certain day-two operations are provided:

• terraform.reload: reloads the template, either from its original location or from an alternative location.
• terraform.refresh: calls terraform state pull.

The resources runtime property is updated after each of the aforementioned day-two operations.

Workflows

The plugin provides the following workflows:

• refresh_terraform_resources: a simple wrapper for the terraform.refresh operation.
• reload_terraform_template: a simple wrapper for the terraform.reload operation.

These workflows, by default, call their relevant wrapped operation for all node instances of the Terraform Module type in the current deployment.

If you have more than one Terraform modules in the same blueprint, you can narrow down the scope of the workflows by specifying either the node_instance_ids or node_ids parameters to the workflows.

Workflow Examples

cfy executions start refresh_terraform_resources -d dep_1

This will execute the "refresh" day-two operation on all node instances inside dep_1 that represent Terraform modules.

cfy executions start refresh_terraform_resources -d dep_1 -p node_ids=[tf_module_1]

This will execute the "refresh" day-two operation on all node instances that belong to the tf_module_1 node template.

Blueprint Examples

For official blueprint examples using this Cloudify plugin, please see Cloudify Community Blueprints Examples.

To Do

• Create a Terraform Backend Service using HTTP Node Type.
  • Package in the plugin w/ a node type.
  • The service should run as a daemon.
  • Exposing Terraform resources via Terraform outputs should trigger execute_resource workflow on those resources.
  • This should enable a user to interact with Terraform and Cloudify from Terraform CLI.
• Support Multiple Modules.