CODE 2755: Live Coding: Terraforming Your vSphere Environment

Infrastructure as code is the process of managing infrastructure in a file or a set of files rather than manually configuring resources in a user interface. This session is going to take a live look at how to make the process of getting starting with infrastructure as code in a VMware vSphere environment as easy as possible using HashiCorp Terraform, the de facto standard for infrastructure as code.

[@windyruss]

I watch a lot of tech videos from big vendors that either don't actually go deep (they'e basically sales stuff), or go deep but miss key info or steps which force you to pause and go and look up whatever term/process they refer to but don't explain. This video doesn't do that. Kyle takes time to explain the basics first and I really appreciate it.

[@lichardbaliuag4122]

This is exactly what I was looking for, you're brilliant!

[@brettmulligan]

Just what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@kaustuvchatterjee4117]

what is your github repo link?

[@techsudo5170]

Thank you for sharing this, you are Awesome!

[@jacksonduarte1763]

Nice tutorial. You explained it really well.

[@jimiboi7692]

Great video, I'm interested in what use cases people have found for vSphere. Given so many things in vSphere have templates (host profiles, LCM, content libraries) I've struggled to find too many use cases for terraform in vSphere. At least on my companies platform. I could see it if you had hybrid cloud and wanted to deploy workloads or spin up certain instances in public cloud or private cloud.

[@carlomagno55]

Muchas gracias por la excelente clase, saludos desde Costa Rica.

[@VMwarecode]

Pura vida, amigo!

[@akshaykumar751]

Can we modify an existing resource using terraform? Eg- adding a new disk to an existing VM

[@dalibelaiba6374]

hello thank you for the video its very informative. i have a question,must be silly but I'm very new to all of this so I want to know the main tf folder where did you get it?

[@sowmyabhat1297]

Even I wanted the link to main.tf file

[@rounakadhikary2768]

One small correction. In the folder example, the parent and child will not be created/destroyed in the specific order that one might expect. That is because the path of the parent is "known" when we are applying. If you look at the plan generated, the child's path was also "known" to be "VMworld/web". Terraform does not know that the child depends on the folder. Its only a stroke of luck that things happened in the correct order.

[@maoryatskan6346]

Awsone tutorial, I'm familiar with Terraform and vSphere, TBH I don't find this combination usefull in real life. But maybe in some cases it makes sense to use Terrfaorm to manage vSphere. Please keep creating great content.

[@kamalakannandileep6644]

How to install vsphere provider in Linux machine

[@kenmurphy4259]

Nice

[@jmbaronster]

Holy crap did I get lost at 18:00. :(