Setting up Terraform for Satellite

Installing Terraform and configuring resources for Satellite

Before you can create an authorization by using Terraform, make sure that you have completed the following tasks.

• Make sure that you have the required access to create and work with Satellite resources.
• Install the Terraform CLI and configure the IBM Cloud Provider plug-in for Terraform. For more information, see the tutorial for Getting started with Terraform on IBM Cloud®. The plug-in abstracts the IBM Cloud APIs that are used to complete this task.
• Create a Terraform configuration file that is named main.tf. In this file, you define resources by using HashiCorp Configuration Language. For more information, see the Terraform documentation.
• To create and manage the underlying infrastructure in other cloud providers, you must have the appropriate permissions. Review common permissions in other cloud providers.

Creating a Satellite location by using Terraform

Satellite provides Terraform templates for creating a Satellite location in the Satellite console.

You can clone and modify these Terraform templates from the Satellite Terraform GitHub repository.

For more information about creating a Satellite location by using Terraform, see ibm_satellite_location.

What's next?

Now that you successfully created your first Satellite location with Terraform on IBM Cloud, you can choose from the following tasks:

• Create, update, or delete Satellite Host.
• Create, update, or delete Satellite Cluster.
• Create, update, or delete Satellite Link.
• Create, update, or delete Satellite Endpoint.