Cisco ACI Provider

Requirements

• Terraform

  • v0.12 and higher (ACI Provider v1.0.0 or higher)
  • v0.11.x or below (ACI Provider v0.7.1 or below)

• Go Latest Version

Building The Provider

Clone this repository to: $GOPATH/src/github.com/CiscoDevNet/terraform-provider-cisco-aci.

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/CiscoDevNet; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/CiscoDevNet
$ git clone https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/terraform-provider-aci.git

Enter the provider directory and run dep ensure to install all the dependancies. After, that run make build to build the provider binary.

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/CiscoDevNet/terraform-provider-aci
$ dep ensure
$ make build

Using The Provider

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If you are building the provider, follow the instructions to install it as a plugin. After placing it into your plugins directory, run terraform init to initialize it.

ex.

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aci = {
      source = "ciscodevnet/aci"
    }
  }
}

#configure provider with your cisco aci credentials.
provider "aci" {
  # cisco-aci user name
  username = "admin"
  # cisco-aci password
  password = "password"
  # cisco-aci url
  url      = "https://my-cisco-aci.com"
  insecure = true
  proxy_url = "https://proxy_server:proxy_port"
}

resource "aci_tenant" "test-tenant" {
  name        = "test-tenant"
  description = "This tenant is created by terraform"
}

resource "aci_application_profile" "test-app" {
  tenant_dn   = aci_tenant.test-tenant.id
  name        = "test-app"
  description = "This application profile is created by terraform"
}

Note : If you are facing the issue of invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value while running terraform apply, use signature based authentication in that case, or else use -parallelism=1 with terraform plan and terraform apply to limit the concurrency to one thread.

terraform plan -parallelism=1
terraform apply -parallelism=1

  provider "aci" {
      # cisco-aci user name
      username = "admin"
      # private key path
      private_key = "path to private key"
      # Certificate Name
      cert_name = "user-cert"
      # cisco-aci url
      url      = "https://my-cisco-aci.com"
      insecure = true
  }

Note: The value of "cert_name" argument must match the name of the certificate object attached to the APIC user (aaaUserCert) used for signature-based authentication

Developing The Provider

If you want to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine.

To compile the provider, run make build. This will build the provider with sanity checks present in scripts directory and put the provider binary in $GOPATH/bin directory.

Important: To successfully use the provider you need to follow these steps:

• Copy or Symlink the provider from the $GOPATH/bin to ~/.terraform.d/plugins/terraform.local/CiscoDevNet/aci/<Version>/<architecture>/ for example:

  ln -s ~/go/bin/terraform-provider-aci ~/.terraform.d/plugins/terraform.local/CiscoDevNet/aci/2.3.0/linux_amd64/terraform-provider-aci

• Edit the Terraform Provider Configuration to use the local provider.

  terraform {
    required_providers {
      aci = {
        source = "terraform.local/CiscoDevNet/aci"
        version = "2.3.0"
      }
    }
  }

NOTE: Currently only resource properties supports the reflecting manual changes made in CISCO ACI. Manual changes to relationship is not taken care by the provider.