February 7, 2025
Terraform VMware Cloud Director Supplier v3.13.0

Terraform Cloud Director Supplier v3.13.0 is offered now, including help for Cloud Director 10.6 with many new options and enhancements.

Extending VCD Performance with Answer Add-Ons

Answer Add-Ons lengthen Cloud Director providing with value-added functionalities. One can handle the assets and life cycle of options which might be custom-built to increase the performance of VMware Cloud Director.

A Answer Add-On is the illustration of an answer that’s {custom} constructed for Cloud Director within the extensibility ecosystem. It encapsulates UI and API Cloud Director extensions along with their backend providers and lifecycle administration. Answer Add-Ons are distributed as .iso information and might include quite a few components: UI plugins, vApps, customers, roles, runtime outlined entities, and extra.

Terraform VCD Supplier 3.13 provides help for Answer Add-Ons with the next new assets and knowledge sources:

On high of that, there are two new assets (with their knowledge sources, as traditional) for Information Answer configuration and publishing to tenants:

VMware Cloud Director extension for Information Options is a Answer Add-On for Cloud Director, which allows multi-tenancy prospects to ship a portfolio of on-demand caching, messaging and database software program. Service suppliers can provide their tenants an built-in resolution, which permits them to function and handle data-as-a-service throughout non-public clouds and sovereign clouds.

There’s a new guide page. For these preferring hands-on expertise, there are additionally HCL examples.

Answer Add-On Configuration Instance (Information Answer Extension)

The beneath code covers finish to finish setup of a Information Answer Extension in a inexperienced discipline – it covers configuration of Answer Touchdown Zone, after which creation, instantiation and publishing of a Answer Add-On.

Be aware: For brevity – these examples lack some referenced useful resource/knowledge supply definitions. An entire set of HCL scripts will be seen within the HCL examples and higher defined within the Data Solution Guide Page.

Dynamic Schema Validation for Answer Add-On Instantiation

Every Answer Add-On comprises its personal inputs that have to be validated and useful resource vcd_solution_add_on_instance has a mechanism for dynamic input validation in the guide.

Configuring and Publishing Information Options

As soon as the DSE Answer Add-On is instantiated and revealed, a supplier can leverage DSE particular assets to carry out registry configuration particulars and publish Information Answer to tenants.

Auto-Scaling Help for Container Service Extension Kubernetes Cluster

The Kubernetes Autoscaler can robotically modify the scale of employee swimming pools in CSE. Terraform VCD Supplier 3.13 permits to configure the auto-scaling capabilities for each employee pool by specifying the minimal and most nodes. This can be utilized as a substitute of the present machine_count argument:

When autoscaler_max_replicas and autoscaler_min_replicas are set in any employee pool, the Kubernetes Autoscaler is robotically deployed to the cluster, with a view to handle the employee swimming pools which might be configured this manner. Extra particulars in regards to the Autoscaler will be learn in the official FAQ doc.

OpenID Join Help

OpenID Join is an authentication layer on high of the OAuth 2.0 protocol, which permits shoppers to obtain details about authenticated classes and end-users. Now you can configure organizations in VMware Cloud Director with Terraform VCD Supplier 3.13 to make use of this identification supplier resolution by utilizing the vcd_org_oidc useful resource:

Within the instance above, a well known endpoint is used to retrieve all of the wanted configuration parameters. When utilizing this type of endpoint, one can even override any of the obtained values, if wanted:

This useful resource can be utilized both by suppliers, to configure OIDC for the System group, or by tenants, to configure OIDC for every tenant.

VDC Template Help

Suppliers can now create and handle VDC Templates with the vcd_org_vdc_template useful resource. A VDC template specifies a configuration for a corporation VDC and, optionally, an Edge Gateway and group VDC community.

The configuration of a VDC Template is similar to how configuring a VDC appears like:

As soon as the VDC Template is created, it may be instantiated by any supplier, or by any tenant consumer with the required rights, and if it was set within the readably_by_org_ids argument. So as to try this, one can leverage the vcd_org_vdc_template_instance useful resource:

Customers can management what to do when the vcd_org_vdc_template_instance useful resource is eliminated, with the delete_instantiated_vdc_on_removal flag and auxiliary flags delete_force and delete_recursive. In the event that they don’t need the useful resource to delete the VDC when it’s faraway from HCL configuration, delete_instantiated_vdc_on_removal=false will keep away from exactly that. That is helpful when the instantiated VDC is imported as a subsequent step, and utterly managed by a vcd_org_vdc useful resource, as a result of customers can then discard the vcd_org_vdc_template_instance code block with none aspect impact.

VCD and Group Affiliation (Multi-Web site)

An affiliation between VCDs is achieved by the collaboration between the directors of the 2 websites (or the coordinated motion of an administrator that personal each VCDs). The info supply vcd_multisite_site_data permits the administrator to gather the affiliation knowledge wanted to arrange the operation. On the opposite aspect, the administrator of the receiving VCD will use the useful resource vcd_multisite_site_association to set the connection. When each side have carried out each operations, the affiliation is completed.

Comparable operations (utilizing the info supply vcd_multisite_org_data and useful resource vcd_multisite_org_association are carried out to create an affiliation between organizations. There are 5 knowledge sources and a couple of assets to carry out the assorted duties. Since it could be complicated to grasp what to make use of and when, we’ve additionally launched a basic objective Site and Org association guide.

Right here’s an instance:

The administrator of website 1 collects the info as follows, saving it to file site1.xml

The administrator of site2 will then create the affiliation:

After that, the 2 directors swap roles and run the identical operations in reverse order (site2 knowledge assortment and site1 affiliation).

There are two full examples about site association and organization association within the repository.

Checklist of New Sources and Information Sources

2 new information pages:

11 new assets:

13 new knowledge sources:

There are extra options and enhancements, which you’ll see within the project’s changelog. And, as at all times, we’re awaiting your suggestions and recommendations in GitHub Issues and #vcd-terraform-dev Slack channel (https://the-code-community.slack.com).

Final however not least, there’s a new model v2.25.0 of Go SDK for VMware Cloud Director.