Version: v1.0

Terraform

In this documentation, we will use Alibaba Cloud’s RDS (Relational Database Service), and Alibaba Cloud’s OSS (Object Storage System) as examples to show how to enable cloud services as part of the application deployment.

These cloud services are provided by Terraform.

Prepare Terraform Controller

Download the latest chart, like terraform-controller-chart-0.1.4.tgz, from the latest releases list and install it.

$ helm install terraform-controller terraform-controller-0.1.2.tgz
NAME: terraform-controller
LAST DEPLOYED: Mon Apr 26 15:55:35 2021
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None

Apply Provider Credentials

By applying Terraform Provider credentials, Terraform controller can be authenticated to deploy and manage cloud resources.

Please refer to Terraform controller getting started on how to apply Provider for Alibaba Cloud or AWS.

Register alibaba-rds Component

Register alibaba-rds to KubeVela.

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1alpha2
kind: ComponentDefinition
metadata:
  name: alibaba-rds
  annotations:
    definition.oam.dev/description: Terraform configuration for Alibaba Cloud RDS object
    type: terraform
spec:
  workload:
    definition:
      apiVersion: terraform.core.oam.dev/v1beta1
      kind: Configuration
  schematic:
    terraform:
      configuration: |
        module "rds" {
          source = "terraform-alicloud-modules/rds/alicloud"
          engine = "MySQL"
          engine_version = "8.0"
          instance_type = "rds.mysql.c1.large"
          instance_storage = "20"
          instance_name = var.instance_name
          account_name = var.account_name
          password = var.password
        }
        output "DB_NAME" {
          value = module.rds.this_db_instance_name
        }
        output "DB_USER" {
          value = module.rds.this_db_database_account
        }
        output "DB_PORT" {
          value = module.rds.this_db_instance_port
        }
        output "DB_HOST" {
          value = module.rds.this_db_instance_connection_string
        }
        output "DB_PASSWORD" {
          value = module.rds.this_db_instance_port
        }
        variable "instance_name" {
          description = "RDS instance name"
          type = string
          default = "poc"
        }
        variable "account_name" {
          description = "RDS instance user account name"
          type = "string"
          default = "oam"
        }
        variable "password" {
          description = "RDS instance account password"
          type = "string"
          default = "Xyfff83jfewGGfaked"
        }

Register alibaba-oss Component

Register alibaba-oss to KubeVela.

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1alpha2
kind: ComponentDefinition
metadata:
  name: alibaba-oss
  annotations:
    definition.oam.dev/description: Terraform configuration for Alibaba Cloud OSS object
    type: terraform
spec:
  workload:
    definition:
      apiVersion: terraform.core.oam.dev/v1beta1
      kind: Configuration
  schematic:
    terraform:
      configuration: |
        resource "alicloud_oss_bucket" "bucket-acl" {
          bucket = var.bucket
          acl = var.acl
        }
        output "BUCKET_NAME" {
          value = "${alicloud_oss_bucket.bucket-acl.bucket}.${alicloud_oss_bucket.bucket-acl.extranet_endpoint}"
        }
        variable "bucket" {
          description = "OSS bucket name"
          default = "vela-website"
          type = string
        }
        variable "acl" {
          description = "OSS bucket ACL, supported 'private', 'public-read', 'public-read-write'"
          default = "private"
          type = string
        }