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Bootstrapping using terraform in openstack - personality issues

ec2624 — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:18:05 GMT

I am trying to automate a vm inside openstack in our Ocata environment using terraform. But I am having issues using the personality when i am building the instance. Using heat template the snippet of the code is as follows.

### Heat ####

user_data_format: RAW
config_drive: true
personality:
/config/init-cfg.txt: {get_file: "/root/bootstrap/config/init-cfg.txt"}
/config/bootstrap.xml: {get_file: "/root/bootstrap/config/bootstrap.xml"}

But in terraform, i cannot find a similar way of setting the personality function. So this is what I tried to use:

resource "openstack_compute_instance_v2" "pan81" {
# count = "${var.count}"
name = "pan01"
image_name = "PAN81"
flavor_name = "p1.large"
key_pair = "${var.openstack_keypair}"
security_groups = ["default"]
config_drive = "true"

metadata {
instance_test = "pan image"
}
network {
name = "terra-mgmt"
}

network {
name = "terra-north"
}
network {
port = "${openstack_networking_port_v2.terra-south-port.id}"
}
personality {
file = "init-cfg.txt"
contents = "/config/init-cfg.txt"
}

Terraform Error:

* openstack_compute_instance_v2.cirros: "personality.0.content": required field is not set
* openstack_compute_instance_v2.cirros: personality.0: invalid or unknown key: contents

Does anyone know how to properly configure the personality block inside the resource "openstack_compute_instance_v2"?

Re: Bootstrapping using terraform in openstack - personality issues

gfreeman — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:05:43 GMT

Looks you're using the Openstack terraform provider there.. I don't know anything about it, but Palo Alto Networks does have a terraform provider now. Would using it fit your use case? It was just updated last week to add Panorama support.

Here's the documentation for it (you just need to do terraform init in a directory that has a panos resource to get the provider itself):

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/panos/index.html

Re: Bootstrapping using terraform in openstack - personality issues

ec2624 — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:18:01 GMT

I am also using the pan provider but the issue with using the pan provider is that when an instance is being built in openstack, the pan provider is also called and fails. The pan provider is best when the instance is already reachable and built.

Re: Bootstrapping using terraform in openstack - personality issues

gfreeman — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:51:33 GMT

Ah, yes. This is a Terraform thing, where they aren't good at "use this provider only after this other provider has provisioned it."