powerscale Provider

The Terraform provider for Dell PowerScale can be used to interact with a Dell PowerScale array in order to manage the array resources.

Example Usage

The following abridged example demonstrates the usage of the provider to create groupnet, subnet, network pool, ads provider, access zone, quota, snapshot, snapshot schedule, user, user group, filesystem ,nfs export and smb share.

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terraform {
  required_providers {
    powerscale = {
      source  = "registry.terraform.io/dell/powerscale"
      version = "1.1.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "powerscale" {
  username = var.username
  password = var.password
  endpoint = var.endpoint
  insecure = var.insecure
}

resource "powerscale_groupnet" "example_groupnet" {
  name = "example_groupnet"
}

resource "powerscale_accesszone" "zone" {
  name     = "example_acczone"
  groupnet = powerscale_groupnet.example_groupnet.name
  path     = "/ifs"
}

resource "powerscale_adsprovider" "ads_test" {
  name     = "ADS.PROVIDER.EXAMPLE.COM"
  groupnet = powerscale_groupnet.example_groupnet.name
  user     = "admin"
  password = "password"
}

resource "powerscale_subnet" "subnet" {
  name     = "example_subnet"
  groupnet = powerscale_groupnet.example_groupnet.name
}

resource "powerscale_networkpool" "pool_test" {
  name        = "example_pool"
  subnet      = powerscale_subnet.subnet.name
  groupnet    = powerscale_groupnet.example_groupnet.name
  access_zone = powerscale_accesszone.zone.name
}

resource "powerscale_quota" "quota_test" {
  path              = powerscale_filesystem.example_file_system.full_path
  type              = "user"
  include_snapshots = "false"
  zone              = powerscale_accesszone.zone.name
  persona = {
    id   = format("%s:%s", "UID", powerscale_user.example_user.uid)
    name = powerscale_user.example_user.name
    type = "user"
  }
}

resource "powerscale_snapshot" "snap" {
  path        = powerscale_filesystem.example_file_system.full_path
  name        = "example_snapshot"
  set_expires = "1 Day"
}

resource "powerscale_snapshot_schedule" "snap_schedule" {
  name = "example_snap_schedule"
  path = powerscale_filesystem.example_file_system.full_path
}

resource "powerscale_user" "example_user" {
  name    = "example_user"
  enabled = true
}

resource "powerscale_user_group" "example_user_group" {
  name  = "example_user_group"
  users = [powerscale_user.example_user.name]
}

resource "powerscale_filesystem" "example_file_system" {
  directory_path = "/ifs/data"
  name           = "example_file_system"
  group = {
    id   = format("%s:%s", "GID", powerscale_user_group.example_user_group.gid)
    name = powerscale_user_group.example_user_group.name
    type = "group"
  }
  owner = {
    id   = format("%s:%s", "UID", powerscale_user.example_user.uid)
    name = powerscale_user.example_user.name,
    type = "user"
  }
  access_control = "public_read_write"
}

resource "powerscale_nfs_export" "example_export" {
  paths = [powerscale_filesystem.example_file_system.full_path]
  zone  = powerscale_accesszone.zone.name
  map_all = {
    enabled = true,
    primary_group = {
      id = format("%s:%s", "GROUP", powerscale_user_group.example_user_group.gid)
    }
    user = {
      id = format("%s:%s", "USER", powerscale_user.example_user.uid)
    }
  }
}

resource "powerscale_smb_share" "share_example" {
  name = "example_smb_share"
  path = powerscale_filesystem.example_file_system.full_path
  zone = powerscale_accesszone.zone.name
  permissions = [
    {
      permission      = "full"
      permission_type = "allow"
      trustee = {
        id   = powerscale_user.example_user.sid,
        name = powerscale_user.example_user.name,
        type = "user"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Schema

Required

  • endpoint (String) The API endpoint, ex. https://172.17.177.230:8080
  • insecure (Boolean) whether to skip SSL validation
  • password (String, Sensitive) The password
  • username (String) The username

Optional

  • auth_type (Number) what should be the auth type, 0 for basic and 1 for session-based
  • timeout (Number) specifies a time limit for requests

Best Practices

  1. The parent resource attributes of a certain resource (e.g. groupnet field of subnet resource) can only be designated at creation. Once designated, they cannot be modified except for parent resource renaming.
  2. The name of a resource is modifiable, but it is necessary to make sure its name referenced in the child resources is also updated (can be done manually or use reference resource_id.name).
  3. Resources with child resources cannot be deleted independently. Use terraform destroy to delete all resources directly or delete all the child resources at the same time (depends_on is recommended to manage resources, serving as a precheck for delete operations).