Terraform

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

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.

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

$ vela addon list | grep terraform-
terraform-alibaba           KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller for Alibaba Cloud                                                       [1.0.2, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.2)
terraform-tencent           KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Tencent Cloud                                              [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
terraform-aws               KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller for AWS                                                                 [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
terraform-azure             KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller for Azure                                                               [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
terraform-baidu             KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Baidu Cloud                                                [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
terraform-gcp               KubeVela    Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Google Cloud Platform                                      [1.0.0, 1.0.1]                          enabled (1.0.0)
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:

vela addon enable terraform-<provider-name>

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

View the supported Terraform providers.

vela config-template list | grep terraform

For example to create a provider config for AWS.

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

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

Last updated on May 6, 2023 by Tianxin Dong