Terraform for Launchpad on VMWare's VSphere

A terraform module for preparing a basic vsphere compute cluster for Launchpad installation.

[Launchpad]{https://docs.mirantis.com/mke/3.7/launchpad.html} is a Mirantis tool for installation of Mirantis Containers products. The tool can work with any properly prepared accessible cluster, This module can create a basic simple cluster, and provide the appropriate Launchpad configuration for use with Launchpad.

Prerequisites

• You need VMware vSphere credentials for API operations
• Terraform installed

Authentication

The Terraform vsphere provider uses parametrization for access configuration. This module collects input arguments for configuring the provider. This is described further below. See here for more information.

Usage

Use the module to create a basic compute cluster with HCL as follows:

module "provision" {
  source = "terraform-mirantis-modules/launchpad-vsphere/mirantis"

  cluster_name = "my-cluster" 

  template_vm_linux = "ubuntu_18" // must exist in your datacenter

  quantity_managers = 1
  quantity_workers  = 3
}

Then use the mke_cluster output for the launchpad yaml:

terraform output -raw mke_cluster > launchpad.yaml
launchpad apply

VSphere Configuration

You can also control a few more details that configure vsphere interaction:

1. vsphere_server URL of the server
2. vsphere_user connection user
3. vsphere_password password for the user
4. datacenter vsphere data center
5. resource_pool vsphere resource pool
6. folder resource folder
7. datastore_cluster datastore

Windows workers

This module does not support windows workers at this time.