Transloadit Terraform Provider

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• Transloadit Docs: https://transloadit.com/docs/
• Transloadit Twitter: https://twitter.com/transloadit
• Transloadit Community: https://community.transloadit.com/

Intro

Transloadit is a file processing service for companies. Developers describe desired outputs with a declarative JSON recipe to encode video, resize and recognize images, normalize audio, thumbnail documents, screenshot websites, and so much more.

Terraform is a tool to provision infrastructure as code. Developers describe desired infrastructure (such as webservers, loadbalancers, storage buckets) with a declarative HCL to launch it.

The Transloadit Terraform Provider lets you launch Transloadit recipes (Templates) with Terraform. This way you can orchestrate your media processing pipelines declaratively from a single place, and make sure it works well in conjunction with other infrastructure. For instance, you may want to use Transloadit as the media conversion engine for your not-so Smart CDN, or make sure required storage buckets are set up in a compatible way.

Install

You'll first need Terraform 0.12.x installed on your system as a prerequisite.

The recommended way to install the Transloadit Terraform Provider is to use binary distributions from the Releases page. The binaries are available for Linux, macOS (darwin) and Windows (all for the amd64 architecture).

Here's how to download and extract the latest release for your OS:

Linux

mkdir -p ~/.terraform.d/plugins/ && cd !$
curl -sSL https://github.com/transloadit/terraform-provider-transloadit/releases/download/v0.1.0/terraform-provider-transloadit_linux_amd64.tar.gz |tar xvz
cd -

macOS

mkdir -p ~/.terraform.d/plugins/ && cd !$
curl -sSL https://github.com/transloadit/terraform-provider-transloadit/releases/download/v0.1.0/terraform-provider-transloadit_darwin_amd64.tar.gz |tar xvz
cd -

Windows

Download and unpack the provider into %APPDATA%\terraform.d\plugins.

Usage

Here's a quick example. More detailed instructions can be found in the website directory. If you intend to use multiple Apps withing Transloadit, check out the examples how to structure that by passing one provider alias per App.

In main.tf:

provider "transloadit" {
  auth_key    = "<TRANSLOADIT-AUTH-KEY>"
  auth_secret = "<TRANSLOADIT-AUTH-SECRET>"
  version     = "0.1.0"
}

resource "transloadit_template" "my-terraform-template" {
  name     = "my-terraform-template"
  template = <<EOT
{
  "steps": {
    ":original": {
      "robot": "/upload/handle"
    },
    "encoded": {
      "use": ":original",
      "robot": "/video/encode",
      "preset": "ipad-high",
      "ffmpeg_stack": "v3.3.3"
    },
    "thumbed": {
      "use": ":original",
      "robot": "/video/thumbs",
      "count": 4,
      "ffmpeg_stack": "v3.3.3"
    },
    "exported": {
      "use": [ ":original", "encoded", "thumbed"], 
      "credentials": "YOUR_S3_CREDENTIALS",
      "robot": "/s3/store"
    }
  }
}
EOT
}

output "my-terraform-template-id" {
  value = transloadit_template.my-terraform-template.id
}

Now on the CLI, run:

terraform init # only required on the first run after using a new Provider (version)
terraform plan

Contributing

Developing the Provider

If you wish to work on the provider, you'll first need Go installed on your machine (version 1.13+ is required). You'll also need to correctly setup a GOPATH, as well as adding $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH.

To compile the provider, run make build. This will build the provider and put the provider binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.

make build
# ...
$GOPATH/bin/terraform-provider-transloadit
# ...

In order to test the provider, you can simply run make test.

make test

In order to run the full suite of Acceptance tests, run make testacc.

You'll need to copy env.example.sh to env.sh and add real Transloadit Credentials. You can then source that and run:

make testacc

Note: Acceptance tests create real resources, and often cost money to run.

Releasing

Travis CI is set up to automatically build and release artifacts onto GitHub Releases upon pushing e.g. a v0.2.0 tag to the master branch.