terraform-provider-rest-example

terraform-provider-rest-example

A basic terraform provider and a HTTP client integrated towards dummy endpoints from https://httpbin.org

The provider makes POST/GET/DELETE/PUT requests towards httpbin for the matching CRUD operations of Terraform.

Build:

Place directories httpbin_client & terraform-provider-rest-example in your $GOPATH/src directory.

cd $GOPATH/src/terraform-provider-rest-example
go build -o terraform-provider-example

To build this for windows a .exe ending is required, replace the last command above with:

go build -o terraform-provider-example.exe

Usage

The provider is called restexample, and it has a single resource defined restexample_server which takes the argument name.

Example: Define a file main.tf

provider "restexample" {
  hostname = "https://httpbin.org"
}

resource "restexample_server" "my-server" {
  name = "my-server-name"
}

Make sure your go build produced binary is located in your %APPDATA%\terraform.d\plugins if on Windows or in ~/.terraform.d/plugins on other systems. Alternatively just place the binary in the same folder as the main.tf file.

The provider now works with the usual terraform init, terraform plan, terraform apply, terraform destroy etc.