DEMO: Deploy multiple VMs and Networks on VMware ESXi

Abstract

Deploy VMs, vswitches, and portgroups using terraform-provider-esxi.

Prerequisites

• Base VM image
• VMware ESXi server
• Terraform
• ovftool

Execution

terraform init
terraform validate
terraform plan
terraform apply

Customization

TODO: Integrated variables HCL file

• hosts.tf

  • VMs
  • Networks (vswitches and portgroups)
  • NICs and assigned IP addrress

• providers.tf

  • ESXi hostname, username and password

• vm.tf

  • base VM name for clone

Description

See Blog post on Qiita (In Japanese)

License

Apache-2.0