Terraform Provider

• Website: https://www.terraform.io
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• Mailing list: Google Groups

Requirements

• Terraform 0.11.x
• Go 1.12 (to build the provider plugin)

Building The Provider

Clone repository to: $GOPATH/src/github.com/nomical/terraform-provider-ecxfabric

$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/nomical; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/nomical
$ git clone git@github.com:nomical/terraform-provider-ecxfabric

Enter the provider directory and build the provider

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/nomical/terraform-provider-ecxfabric
$ make build

Using the provider

If you want to run Terraform with the ECXFabric provider plugin on your system, complete the following steps:

1. Download and install Terraform for your system.

2. Download the ECXFabric provider plugin for Terraform.

3. Unzip the release archive to extract the plugin binary (terraform-provider-ecxfabric_vX.Y.Z).

4. Move the binary into the Terraform plugins directory for the platform.

   • Linux/Unix/OS X: ~/.terraform.d/plugins
   • Windows: %APPDATA%\terraform.d\plugins

5. Ensure you have an Equinix developer account. Visit Equinix Developer site.

6. Have your Oauth2 details to hand. See https://developer.equinix.com/user/me/apps to obtain your details, create an App if one doesn't exist.

7. You can either use environment variables to configure the provider or explicitly in the provider configuration.

export ECXFABRIC_CLIENT_ID="Equinix App OAuth2 Client ID"
export ECXFABRIC_CLIENT_SECRET="Equinix OAuth2 Client Secret"
export ECXFABRIC_USERNAME="Equinix Username"
export ECXFABRIC_PASSWORD="Equinix Password"

6. Add the plug-in provider to the Terraform configuration file.

provider "ecxfabric" {
  client_id     = "Equinix App OAuth2 Client ID"
  client_secret = "Equinix OAuth2 Client Secret"
  username      = "Equinix Username"
  password      = "Equinix Password"
}

Developing the Provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (version 1.8+ is required). You'll also need to correctly setup a GOPATH, as well as adding $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH.

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

$ make bin
...
$ $GOPATH/bin/terraform-provider-ecxfabric
...

In order to test the provider, you can simply run make test.

$ make test

In order to run the full suite of Acceptance tests, run make testacc.

Note: Acceptance tests create real resources, and often cost money to run.

$ make testacc

In order to run a particular Acceptance test, export the variable TESTARGS. For example

$ export TESTARGS="-run TestAccL2Connection_Basic"
$ make testacc

Shorter version

$ make testacc TESTARGS="-run=TestAccL2Connection_Basic"

Issuing make testacc will now run the testcase with names matching TestAccL2Connection_Basic. This particular testcase is present in ecxfabric/resource_l2_connection_test.go

You will also need to export the following environment variables for running the Acceptance tests.

• ECXFABRIC_CLIENT_ID
• ECXFABRIC_CLIENT_SECRET
• ECXFABRIC_USERNAME
• ECXFABRIC_PASSWORD
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_REGION

Additional environment variables may be required depending on the tests being run. Check console log for warning messages about required variables.