Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies ObjectScale

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The Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies (Dell) ObjectScale allows Data Center and IT administrators to use Hashicorp Terraform to automate and orchestrate the provisioning and management of Dell ObjectScale storage systems.

The logged-in user configured in the Terraform provider must possess adequate permissions against the target Dell ObjectScale System.

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Support

For any Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale issues, questions or feedback, please follow our support process

License

The Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale is released and licensed under the MPL-2.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms.

Prerequisites

Terraform Provider ObjectScale Version OS Terraform Golang
v1.0.0 4.1.x RHEL 9.6, UBUNTU 22.04 1.14.3 and 1.13.5 1.25.6

List of Data Sources in Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Namespacing & Tenancy

User Management

Object Storage Containers

Data Protection

Storage Topology & Capacity Domains

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Object Storage Containers

Namespace and Tenancy

User Management

Data Protection

Installation and execution of Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Installation from public repository

The provider will be fetched from the public repository and installed by Terraform automatically. Create a file called main.tf in your workspace with the following contents

terraform {
  required_providers {
    objectscale = { 
      version = "1.0.0"
      source = "registry.terraform.io/dell/objectscale"
    }
  }
}

Then, in that workspace, run

terraform init

Installation from source code

  1. Clone this repo
  2. In the root of this repo run
make install

Then follow installation from public repo

SSL Certificate Verification

For SSL verifcation on RHEL, these steps can be performed:

  • Copy the CA certificate to the /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors path of the host by any external means.
  • Import the SSL certificate to host by running
update-ca-trust extract

For SSL verification on Ubuntu, these steps can be performed:

  • Copy the CA certificate to the /etc/ssl/certs path of the host by any external means.
  • Import the SSL certificate to host by running:
 update-ca-certificates

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies ObjectScale follows Semantic Versioning.

New versions will be released on a regular basis whenever significant updates—such as bug fixes or new features—are introduced to the provider.

Released code versions are located on tags in the form of “vx.y.z” where x.y.z corresponds to the version number.

Documentation

For more detailed information, please refer to

New to Terraform?

Here are some helpful links to get you started if you are new to terraform before using our provider: