terraform-provider-platformsh

[OneCricketeer]

Thanks for (finally) creating a Go CLI, but can that please be extended to provide a Terraform Provider for Platform.sh? Benefits include being able to construct and fully, and centrally, manage projects and their resources as config rather than a series of shell scripts.

I'd went ahead and created my own, internally, using native Golang HTTP requests rather than embedding PHP, and it is working fine as a POC stage, but would be nice if there was something more official (even if it did embed PHP, although large binaries are an unfortunate side effect).

Reference https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/providers-plugin-framework

[lolautruche]

Thanks @OneCricketeer for your feedback, that's greatly appreciated!

Could you please elaborate what you'd expect in such an integration? Would you have any snippets in mind?

[OneCricketeer]

Let's say I want to create a project. It needs my SSH key, and some environment variables at build and runtime. I also want to host on some custom domain, and grant access to others working on the same project.

With the CLI, this requires several steps.

1. platform ssh:add
2. platform project:create
3. platform variable:create
4. platform domain:add
5. platform user:add

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Instead, that can all be defined in one file, which can very simply be terraform apply'd.

resource "platformsh_ssh_key" "ssh_onecricketeer" {
  title = "Key for OneCricketeer"
  key   = file("~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub")
}

resource "platformsh_project" "first" {
  plan    = "..."
  region  = "..."
  title   = "My First Project"
  environments  = 3
  storage       = 5120
}

... and so on

And if I want to update any of those values, or delete them, I just change that file. I don't need the cognitive overload of having to remember which platform CLI subcommand does what, nor would I have an audit trail of those CLI actions (assuming using GitOps with Terraform).

[OneCricketeer]

To clarify, this would lay the ground work for the infrastructure components. You'd still need to use regular git / platform commands to manage environments/branches.

[lolautruche]

Thanks for the clarification 😃 .
This would align with our will to define a SDK in Go to interact with Platform.sh API. The Terraform provider would then be a "frontend" of this SDK, as the Go CLI would be.
This might also be interesting with future Flexplans.

[OneCricketeer]

@lolautruche I see the new service announcement, but still no Terraform Provider?