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This script allows terraform to connect to a SaltStack master and generate keys, prior to launching the hosts so that the keys can be injected into cloud-init.

Example

• Create a unix account on the SaltStack master called terraform-salt.
• Allow it to be used to auth on the master:

external_auth:      
  pam:
    terraform-salt:
      - '@wheel'

• Update the pam_user & pam_passwd variables in salt_generate_key.py
• Enable the REST CherryPy API:

rest_cherrypy:
  port: 8080
  ssl_crt: /usr/local/etc/ssl/corp/cert.pem
  ssl_key: /usr/local/etc/ssl/corp/key.pem

• Restart the SaltStack Master
• Restart the SaltStack API
• In terraform add a external data source for creating VMs:

data "external" "salt-key" {
  program = ["python", "salt_generate_key.py"]
  query = {
    host = var.hostname
    site = var.site
  }
}

• In terraform add a provisioner to the VMs as part of the vm resource for cleaning up:

  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "python salt_generate_key.py -d ${self.name_label}"
    when = destroy
  }

• In terraform add a data block for the template file that cloud-init will use. Note that this supports overrides for specific hostnames.

data "template_file" "cloudinit" {
  template = fileexists( join("", ["cloud-config-", replace(var.hostname, "/\\d+$/", ""), ".tpl"] ) ) ? join("", [ file("cloud-config.tpl"), file( join("", ["cloud-config-", replace(var.hostname, "/\\d+$/", ""), ".tpl"] ) ) ] ) : file("cloud-config.tpl")
  vars = {
    hostname = var.hostname
    site     = var.site
    salt_private_key = data.external.salt-key.result.salt_private_key
    salt_public_key  = data.external.salt-key.result.salt_public_key
  }
}

• Create the cloud-init template file in the top level of the terraform directory: cloud-config.tpl:

#cloud-config
hostname: ${hostname}.${site}.internal
salt_minion:
  conf:
    log_level_logfile: info
    startup_states: highstate
  grains:
    site: ${site}
  public_key: |
${salt_public_key}
  private_key: |
${salt_private_key}

• In terraform pass in the cloudinit template file to the VM:
  • For XenOrchestra:

    resource "xenorchestra_vm" "test" {
      ...
      cloud_config = data.template_file.cloudinit.rendered
    }
    

  • For VMWare vsphere:

    resource vsphere_virtual_machine "test" {
      ...
      extra_config = {
        "guestinfo.metadata"          = base64encode(data.template_file.cloudinit.rendered)
        "guestinfo.metadata.encoding" = "base64"
      }
    }