Terraform

To provision cloud resources, you can use terraform along with related cloud provider addons.

Enable Terraform addon

  1. vela addon enable terraform

After Terraform addon is enabled, you will have a basic capability to create cloud resources in CRD ways. Then you can enable a terraform provider addon for specific clouds.

Enable Terraform Provider addon

KubeVela can support the following cloud providers by enabling the Terraform provider addons.

  1. $ vela addon list | grep terraform-
  2. terraform-alibaba           KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller for Alibaba Cloud                                                       [1.0.2, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.2)
  3. terraform-tencent           KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Tencent Cloud                                              [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
  4. terraform-aws               KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller for AWS                                                                 [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
  5. terraform-azure             KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller for Azure                                                               [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
  6. terraform-baidu             KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Baidu Cloud                                                [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
  7. terraform-gcp               KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Google Cloud Platform                                      [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
  8. terraform-ucloud            KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for UCloud                                                     [1.0.1, 1.0.0]                          enabled (1.0.1)

To enable one of them, use the following command:

  1. vela addon enable terraform-<provider-name>

You can also disable, upgrade, and check the status of an addon by command vela addon.

Authenticate a Terraform provider

View the supported Terraform providers.

  1. vela config-template list | grep terraform

For example to create a provider config for AWS.

  1. vela config create aws -t terraform-aws AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=xxx AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=yyy AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1

Provision cloud resources

After a Terraform provider is authenticated, you can provision and/or consume cloud resources.