Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerStore
The Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies (Dell) PowerStore allows Data Center and IT administrators to use Hashicorp Terraform to automate and orchestrate the provisioning and management of Dell PowerStore storage systems.
The Terraform Provider can be used to manage volumes, snapshot rules, protection policies and storage containers.
Table of contents
- Support
- License
- Prerequisites
- List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore
- List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore
- Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation
- Documentation
Support
For any Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore issues, questions or feedback, please follow our support process
License
The Terraform Provider for PowerStore is released and licensed under the MPL-2.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms.
Prerequisites
Terraform Provider | PowerStore Version | OS | Terraform | Golang |
---|---|---|---|---|
v1.1.0 | 3.0/3.2 | Ubuntu 22.04 RHEL 8.x RHEL 7.x |
1.3.x 1.2.x |
1.19.x |
List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore
- Volume
- Snapshot Rule
- Protection Policy
- Storage Container
- Host
- Host Group
- Volume Group
- Volume Snapshot
- Volume Group Snapshot
- Storage Container
List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore
- Volume
- Volume Group
- Host
- Host Group
- Volume Snapshot
- Volume Group Snapshot
- Snapshot Rule
- Protection Policy
Installation of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore
Installation from Terraform Registry
The provider will be fetched from the Terraform registry and installed by Terraform automatically.
Create a file called main.tf
in your workspace with the following contents
terraform {
required_providers {
powerstore = {
version = "1.1.0"
source = "registry.terraform.io/dell/powerstore"
}
}
}
Then, in that workspace, run
terraform init
If you are upgrading from a previous version, set the version of powerstore in the required providers block to “1.1.0” as shown above. Then, in your workspace, run
terraform init -upgrade
For more details on how to upgrade provider versions, please check out https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/configuration-language/provider-versioning
Installation from source code
Dependencies: Go 1.19.x, make, Terraform 1.2.x/1.3.x
Run
git clone https://github.com/dell/terraform-provider-powerstore.git
cd terraform-provider-powerstore
make install
Then follow installation from Terraform registry
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 Technnologies PowerStore follows Semantic Versioning.
New version will be released regularly if significant changes(bug fixes or new features) are made in the provider.
Released code versions are located on tags with names of the form “vx.y.z” where x.y.z corresponds to the version number.
Documentation
For more detailed information, please refer to Dell Terraform Providers Documentation.