Dell Technologies – ObjectScale

V1.1.0: ReadMe

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies ObjectScale

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.

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
v1.1.0	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

Namespace

User Management

Object Storage Containers

Bucket

Data Protection

Replication Group

Storage Topology & Capacity Domains

Certificate Management

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Object Storage Containers

Bucket

Namespace and Tenancy

Namespace

User Management

Data Protection

Replication Group

Certificate Management

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 = "1.1.0"
      source = "registry.terraform.io/dell/objectscale"
    }
  }
}

Then, in that workspace, run

terraform init

Installation from source code

Clone this repo
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:

Intro to Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/intro
Providers: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/providers
Resources: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/resources
Datasources: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/data-sources
Import: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/import
Variables: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/values/variables
Modules: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/modules
State: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/state
Environment Variables: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/config/environment-variables

V1.1.0: Product Guide

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V1.1.0: Release Notes

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Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Release Notes 1.1.0

© 2026 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This release note contains supplemental information about Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale.

Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale Release Notes 1.1.0

Revision History

The table in this section lists the revision history of this document.

Revision	Date	History
01	Jan 2026	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale 1.0.0
02	Jun 2026	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale 1.1.0

Product Description

The Terraform Provider for 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.

Bug Fixes

This release addresses bug fixes to improve stability and user experience for Dell ObjectScale.

Fixes dell/dell-terraform-providers#46: Create Request modified to handle missing fields (#56)
IAM User Permissions Boundary Fix (#60)

New Features

Resources

IAM SAML Provider – Create, Read, Update, Delete, Import
IAM Service Provider – Create, Read, Update, Delete, Import
Object Certificate – Create, Read, Update, Delete, Import
VDC Certificate – Create, Read, Update, Delete, Import

Data Sources

IAM SAML Provider
IAM Service Provider
IAM Service Provider Metadata
Object Certificate
VDC Certificate

Enhancements

Add IAM SAML Provider and IAM Service Provider resources and datasources for SAML-based authentication (#58)
Add VDC and Object certificate keystore management with PKCS#8 support for ObjectScale 4.3+ (#59)
Enhance VDC datasource documentation with federation listing examples (#57)
Upgrade Go dependencies to resolve BlackDuck security issues (#62)

Removal

Deprecations

Known Issues

The IAM Policy datasource currently treats invalid namespaces by returning policies from all namespaces, instead of throwing an error as expected.

Limitations

There are no known limitations.

Distribution

The software package is available for download from the Official Terraform Registry as well as from the Terraform Provider for ObjectScale GitHub page.

Documentation

Readme

Product Guide

Dell Technologies – ObjectScale

V1.1.0: ReadMe

Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies ObjectScale

Table of Contents

Support

License

Prerequisites

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

Certificate Management

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Object Storage Containers

Namespace and Tenancy

User Management

Data Protection

Certificate Management

Installation and execution of Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Installation from public repository

Installation from source code

SSL Certificate Verification

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

Documentation

New to Terraform?

V1.1.0: Product Guide

V1.1.0: Release Notes

Terraform Provider for Dell ObjectScale

Release Notes 1.1.0

Contents

Revision History

Product Description

Bug Fixes

New Features

Resources

Data Sources

Enhancements

Removal

Deprecations

Known Issues

Limitations

Distribution

Documentation