vRouter Automation Demo

Overview

Setup your environment

• Install AWS CLI
  • Configure credentials
    aws configure
• Download and install Terraform in your PATH: https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
• Change to the poc directory (here)
  cd vRouter-multicloud-poc
• Ensure the AWS and template provider plugins are installed
  terraform init
• Copy the sample.tfvars file to my.tfvars and update the values
  cp sample.tfvars my.tfvars
• Get modules
  terraform get

Deploy the environment

terraform validate -var-file="my.tfvars"

terraform plan -var-file="my.tfvars" -out=plan
terraform apply "plan”

Teardown the environment

terraform destroy -var-file="my.tfvars"

Mark a specific resource to be rebuilt

To mark the vRouter in VPC 112 to be rebuilt, mark it as tainted, then run apply:

terraform taint -module=VPC-112 aws_instance.vRouter
terraform apply -var-file="my.tfvars"

Contributing

Please validate and format file prior to committing:

terraform validate -var-file="my.tfvars"
terraform fmt
git add <...>

Archive files

export REPO_DIR=`pwd`; (cd .. && tar czvf vRouter-terraform-4-vpc-topo.tgz --exclude='archive' --exclude='terraform.*' --exclude='.terraform*' --exclude='.git' $REPO_DIR)