cluster

Simple template to deploy an IBM Cloud Kubernetes cluster

Prerequisite

1. Download Terraform binary. Unzip it and keep the binary in path ex- /usr/local/bin.
2. Download IBM Cloud Provider Plugin. Unzip it and keep the binary in path in the same directory where you placed Terraform binary in previous step. You can also build the binary yourself. Please look into documentation.

To run this project locally execute the following steps:

• Clone this project.

• You can override default values that are in your variables.tf file.

  • Alternatively these values can be supplied via the command line or environment variables, see https://www.terraform.io/intro/getting-started/variables.html.

  Environment Variables using IBMid credentials

You'll need to export the following environment variables:

• TF_VAR_ibmcloud_api_key - your IBM Cloud api key

On OS X this is achieved by entering the following into your terminal, replacing the <value> characters with the actual values (remove the <>:

• export TF_VAR_ibmcloud_api_key=<value>

Variables

Variable Name	Description	Default Value
machine_type	The type of the machine flavor	b2c.8x32
hardware	The level of hardware isolation for your worker node	shared
datacenter	The datacenter to provision cluster	wdc07
default_pool_size	No of workers in default pool	3
private_vlan_id	The private vlan ID. Run ic ks vlans datacenter to retrieve vlans
public_vlan_id	The public vlan ID.Run ic ks vlans datacenter to retrieve vlans
kube_version	The desired Kubernetes version of the created cluster. Run ic ks kube-versions to get latest verions.	1.14.6