Getting started with Terraform and Nutanix

What you need to get started

1. A Nutanix Cluster running AHV and Prism Central
2. A subnet named "Primary"

Here is what it does

1. Uploads a CentOS7 image
2. Builds a VM
3. Runs cloudinit script to setup the following:
   • git
   • terraform
   • download the terraform scripts

How to use these files

1. Login to the CentoOS VM that was created on the Nutanix Cluster
   • ssh nutanix@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
   • Password is "nutanix/4u"
2. cd /home/nutanix/Getting_Started_With_Terraform_and_Nutanix
3. Edit the main.tf and change the "prefix_for_created_entities = " entry to your initials
4. At the command prompt run 'terraform init'.
5. Run 'terrform plan'
6. Run 'terraform apply -auto-approve'

NOTE: There may be a time gap between the time all items are built in Prism Central and the time Terraform thinks it is done. Give it a while, it will eventually figure it out. This can take as long as 30 minutes.

7. To clean up, run 'terraform destroy -auto-approve' and everthing created by Terraform will be removed.

Nice work! The examples in the my other github repos are a great next step now that you have the basics figured out.

Other Notes

This was created by Tony Hughes (aka TH in the comments) to provide a quick introduction to using Terraform with Nutanix in about 100 lines of code.