Examples of Terraform for Jetstream2
Ben Trumbore
Cornell Center for Advanced Computing
Revisions: 3/2024, 9/2021 (original)
This topic walks you through an incremental construction of a complete Terraform configuration for use with Jetstream2. Most pages contain a mixture of content describing aspects of Terraform, the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), Terraform's OpenStack provider, and deployment to Jetstream2. The result is a configuration that deploys a cluster of instances on Jetstream2.
It is strongly recommended that you visit the pages of this topic in order.
Objectives
After you complete this topic, you should be able to:
- Explain what the Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) is.
- Name several types of Terraform resource blocks.
- Understand the difference between the Terraform
planandapplycommands. - Use the provided Terraform scripts to deploy a single Ubuntu instance to Jetstream2.
Prerequisites
To perform the steps in this topic you must have completed the
Preparing to Use Terraform on Jetstream2 topic.