{"id":2056,"date":"2021-06-18T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/us\/resources\/tutorials\/upcloud-object-storage-terraform\/"},"modified":"2021-06-18T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:10:35","slug":"upcloud-object-storage-terraform","status":"publish","type":"tutorial","link":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/resources\/tutorials\/upcloud-object-storage-terraform\/","title":{"rendered":"How to deploy UpCloud Object Storage using Terraform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Terraform<\/a> is a simple yet powerful open-source infrastructure management tool developed by HashiCorp. Terraform allows you to safely and predictably manage your cloud infrastructure from Cloud Servers to Object Storage<\/a> by codifying APIs into declarative configuration files.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Building your cloud setup around Terraform is a great way to configure something once and be able to deploy it again and again with no effort at all. In this guide, we will show how to deploy UpCloud Object Storage using Terraform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Test Terraform on UpCloud!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Setting up new deployment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Each Terraform deployment lives in its own directory. To get started, create a new directory for your Terraform project and move into the new directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mkdir -p ~\/terraform\/object-storage && cd ~\/terraform\/object-storage<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Deploying onto UpCloud using Terraform works using our verified provider module<\/a>. Using the UpCloud Terraform provider is as simple as declaring the required providers in a configuration file. A standard name for this file is version.tf<\/tt>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Create the file with the below command then open it for editing with your preferred text editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
touch version.tf<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Then, add the following to the file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
terraform {\n  required_providers {\n    upcloud = {\n      source = \"UpCloudLtd\/upcloud\"\n    }\n  }\n}\n\nprovider \"upcloud\" {\n  # Your UpCloud credentials are read from the environment variables\n  # export UPCLOUD_USERNAME=\"Username for Upcloud API user\"\n  # export UPCLOUD_PASSWORD=\"Password for Upcloud API user\"\n  # Optional configuration settings can be depclared here\n}<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Afterwards, save the file and exit the editor. With the required module declaration in place, you can continue with the next step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next, initialise the new Terraform configuration directory by running the command underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
terraform init<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You should then see an output similar to the example below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initializing the backend...\n\nInitializing provider plugins...\n- Finding latest version of upcloudltd\/upcloud...\n- Installing upcloudltd\/upcloud v2.1.0...\n- Installed upcloudltd\/upcloud v2.1.0 (self-signed, key ID 60B4E1988F222907)\n\nPartner and community providers are signed by their developers.\nIf you'd like to know more about provider signing, you can read about it here:\nhttps:\/\/www.terraform.io\/docs\/cli\/plugins\/signing.html\n\nTerraform has created a lock file .terraform.lock.hcl to record the provider\nselections it made above. Include this file in your version control repository\nso that Terraform can guarantee to make the same selections by default when\nyou run \"terraform init\" in the future.\n\nTerraform has been successfully initialized!<\/strong><\/span>\n\nYou may now begin working with Terraform. Try running \"terraform plan\" to see\nany changes that are required for your infrastructure. All Terraform commands\nshould now work.\n\nIf you ever set or change modules or backend configuration for Terraform,\nrerun this command to reinitialize your working directory. If you forget, other\ncommands will detect it and remind you to do so if necessary.\n<\/span><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Also, as shown in the provider section of the version.tf<\/tt> file, to allow Terraform to access your UpCloud account, you need to set an account name and password in your environmental variables. If you haven\u2019t done this already, check out our Terraform intro tutorial<\/a> to set your API credentials before continuing with the rest of this tutorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your Terraform configuration directory should then be ready. Continue in the next section to create your Object Storage configuration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Configuring Object Storage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
With Terraform, you can easily create Object Storage instances by simply declaring the resource in your Terraform config files. For this guide, we\u2019ll configure an Object Storage instance with the starter storage size and some examples for buckets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Create a new Terraform configuration file, e.g. object-storage.tf<\/tt> with the following command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
touch object-storage.tf<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Then open the file for edit and add the following configuration to the file. Remember to set your access and secret keys highlighted in red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
resource \"upcloud_object_storage\" \"my_object_storage\" {\n  # Allocate 250GB for this Object Storage\n  size  = 250\n\n  # Instance name which forms part of the URL used to access the storage\n  name = \"storage-name\"\n\n  # Location in which the Object Storage is deployed\n  zone  = \"nl-ams1\"\n\n  # The access and secret keys used to access the Object Storage instance\n  access_key = \"awodhouafsefrfhj<\/span>\"\n  secret_key = \"3piafn895a9fjpi5<\/span>\"\n  \n  description = \"catalogue\"\n\n  # Create a bucket called \"images\"\n  bucket {\n    name = \"images\"\n  }\n\n  # Create a bucket called \"products\"\n  bucket {\n    name = \"products\"\n  }\n}<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The configuration options include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n