Terraform for Network Engineers: Part Two
Before diving in, if you haven’t read the first part of this series, I highly recommend starting there. In the introductory post, we covered the basics of Terraform and explored how network engineers can leverage it.
In part two, we will:
- Explore the provider documentation for Panorama.
- Set up our project and create some resources and go through the Terraform workflow.
- Review the state file.
- Reflect on our achievements so far: Have we made our lives easier?
Provider Documentation
All Terraform providers have their documentation available on the Terraform website, following a similar structure.The Panorama provider documentation can be found here.
Here are a couple of screenshots highlighting the key sections of the Panorama provider documentation.
If you drill down into a Resource, you can find how the configuration block would look and what are the arguments you can pass to it.
Project Setup and Workflow
We'll set up all the files and folders needed to create resources on Panorama using Terraform. I prefer to keep my Terraform projects organized. Below is the structure I typically follow for my projects.
mkdir tf-neteng
cd tf-neteng
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