We are excited to announce the new Terraform provider for VMware’s NSX-T platform available today. VMware users are now able to use HashiCorp Terraform for provisioning and managing NSX-T infrastructure. The NSX-T platform is ideal for customers transitioning into a containerized, multi-hypervisor, or multi-cloud environments. The Terraform provider offers support for a number of Data Sources and Resources making it easy for organizations to automate their NSX-T deployments.
»NSX-T Data Sources
With the new provider, users can configure data sources into their Terraform files. This tells Terraform where to find crucial data while it builds the specified resources. Some of the available data sources are:
transport_zone
switching_profile
ns_service
logical_tier0_router
edge_cluster
»NSX-T Resources
Resources are the specific components of the NSX-T platform that Terraform can now create, manage, and destroy with the new provider. Resources can be provisioned individually or grouped together as part of a larger deployment all within the same configuration file. At launch, the resources being supported by the NSX-T provider will be:
logical_switch
logical_port
logical_tier1_router
logical_router_downlink_port
logical_router_link_port_on_tier0
logical_router_link_port_on_tier1
l4_port_set_ns_service
icmp_type_ns_service
igmp_type_ns_service
ether_type_ns_service
alg_type_ns_service
ip_protocol_ns_service
ns_group
firewall_section
nat_rule
ip_set
dhcp_relay_profile
dhcp_relay_service
static_route
»Getting Started
For additional details and assistance getting started with this provider, VMware has published a blog and recorded a demo of a NSX-T and Terraform configuration (shown below).
