This module creates a bootstrapping server on vSphere to assist creating machines.

This module requires a template host VM to clone from. This machine will be expected to provide certain aspects listed down here.

• Ubuntu 20.04

• /etc/sudoers contains %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL.
• Steps listed here to disable cloud-init:
  • sudo touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled
  • sudo apt-get purge cloud-init
  • Comment /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf line setting /tmp permissions:
    • #/tmp 1777 root root -
  • Update the /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service after open-vm-tools is installed:
    • Add "After=dbus.service" under [Unit]

• set the IP address to the same as the management_ipv4_address in case customization doesn't work as expected.

• open-vm-tools
• perl

• ubuntu
  • /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys set with the SSH public key provided in files, ubuntu.pub.
  • Member of the sudo group.
  • NOTE: this user will be destroyed at the end of deployment.

To use this module, in your main.tf TerraForm code for a deployment insert the following:

module "bootstrap-1" { source = "github.com/frozenfoxx/terraform-bootstrap-vsphere" authkeys = var.authkeys cluster = var.cluster datacenter = var.datacenter dataroot = "[Path for TFTP data root]" datastore = var.datastore dhcpstart = "[DHCP range Start IP]" dhcpstop = "[DHCP range Stop IP]" folder = var.folder management_dns_servers = var.management_dns_servers management_domain = var.management_domain management_gateway = var.management_gateway management_ipv4_address = "[Management Network IP]" management_ipv4_prefix_length = "[Management Subnet Mask]" management_netlabel = var.management_netlabel name = "[Hostname]" password = var.password template = var.template username = var.username vmtimez = var.vmtimez } 

The username, password, and authkeys fields are to deploy a persistent, administrative user after deployment. This is to maintain access given the ubuntu user will be destroyed as part of deployment.