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Terraform VMware Cloud Director Provider 3.4.0 release available

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source link: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudprovider/2021/10/terraform-vcd-provider-3-4-0.html
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Autumn brings a new Terraform VMware Cloud Director Provider release – 3.4.0 with support for latest VCD 10.3.1. We’re continuing our NSX-T journey and providers are getting attention this time.

The beginning of NSX-T ALB configuration

This release brings in three NSX-T ALB configuration resources with corresponding data sources for providers that completely cover functionality of ALB management for providers to date:

  • vcd_nsxt_alb_controller
  • vcd_nsxt_alb_cloud
  • vcd_nsxt_alb_service_engine_group

Additionally, there is one more data source for lookup of NSX-T ALB Importable Cloud:

  • vcd_nsxt_alb_importable_cloud

Here’s an example with a complete setup of a Service Engine Group for providers:

# Local variable is used to avoid direct reference and cover Terraform core
# bug https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/29484 Even changing NSX-T ALB Controller name
# in UI, plan will cause to recreate all resources depending on `vcd_nsxt_alb_importable_cloud`
# data source if this indirect reference (via local) variable is not used.
locals {
  controller_id = vcd_nsxt_alb_controller.first.id
resource "vcd_nsxt_alb_controller" "first" {
  name         = "aviController1"
  description  = "first alb controller"
  url          = "https://controller.myXZ"
  username     = "admin"
  password     = "secret-password"
  license_type = "ENTERPRISE"
data "vcd_nsxt_alb_importable_cloud" "cld" {
  name          = "importable-cloud-name"
  controller_id = local.controller_id
resource "vcd_nsxt_alb_cloud" "first" {
  name        = "nsxt-cloud"
  description = "first alb cloud"
  controller_id       = vcd_nsxt_alb_controller.first.id
  importable_cloud_id = data.vcd_nsxt_alb_importable_cloud.cld.id
  network_pool_id     = data.vcd_nsxt_alb_importable_cloud.cld.network_pool_id
resource "vcd_nsxt_alb_service_engine_group" "first" {
  name                                 = "demo-service-engine"
  description                          = "Service Engine for Terraform documentation"
  alb_cloud_id                         = vcd_nsxt_alb_cloud.first.id
  importable_service_engine_group_name = "Default-Group"
  reservation_model                    = "SHARED"
  sync_on_refresh                      = false

Ready for 10.3 – NSX-T Segment backed External Network

VCD 10.3 added support for NSX-T External Network backed by a Segment and 3.4.0 is ready to consume it.

In prior versions Org VDC network resource vcd_nsxt_network_imported was the way to expose NSX-T Segment to VDC. That bound NSX-T Segment to a single VDC. The new Segment backed External Network option allows to share the same NSX-T Segment with multiple VDCs. One does it by at first creating an NSX-T Segment Backed External Network and then using  vcd_network_direct to expose it in VDCs as demonstrated in the example below:

data "vcd_nsxt_manager" "main" {
  name = "nsxManager"
resource "vcd_external_network_v2" "ext-net-nsxt-segment" {
  name        = "nsxt-segment-backed-external-network"
  nsxt_network {
    nsxt_manager_id   = data.vcd_nsxt_manager.main.id
    nsxt_segment_name = "existing-nsxt-segment-name"
  ip_scope {
    gateway       = "1.1.1.1"
    prefix_length = "24"
    static_ip_pool {
      start_address = "1.1.1.88"
      end_address   = "1.1.1.100"
resource "vcd_network_direct" "net" {
  vdc = "nsxt-vdc"
  name             = "segment-backed-direct-net"
  external_network = vcd_external_network_v2.ext-net-nsxt-segment.name
  depends_on = [vcd_external_network_v2.ext-net-nsxt-segment]

Improvements

In addition to new resources we also did some improvements and fixes for existing codebase:

  • It is now possible to add and remove storage profiles without replacing the VDC when using resource vcd_org_vdc.
  • Resource vcd_catalog deletion is improved to handle failures better.

Documentation

Documentation got some attention in this release.

  • Migration to Terraform registry made some documentation links broken, and they are now fixed.
  • Thanks to community contribution – we now have HCL examples in documentation adjusted to newer Terraform syntax and formatted properly.

More information

As usual there is more than that – here’s the link to [complete changelog].(https://github.com/vmware/terraform-provider-vcd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#340-september-30-2021).


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