How to launch an instance in OpenStack using Terraform

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new in Terraform. I have my OpenStack Cloud. I want to launch one instance in OpenStack using Terraform. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to use openstack_compute_instance_v2 resource to launch an instance in OpenStack. This resource automatically connects to your OpenStack Cloud from Terraform. I have attached one example for your reference.

provider "openstack" {
  user_name   = "demo"
  tenant_name = "demo"
  password    = "647a07963bf74375"
  auth_url    = "openstack_url"
  region      = "RegionOne"
}

resource "openstack_compute_instance_v2" "basic" {
  name            = "myimage"
  image_id        = "4892a7c5-dc0d-48cd-bd70-0e6c77bd7668"
  flavor_name       = "m1.small"
  network {
    name = "private"
  }
}

I hope this will give you some ideas.