Part 1: Setup¶

Steps¶

1. Account Setup and Terraform Install¶

This workshop assumes working knowledge of Equinix Metal and Terraform. If you are not already familiar with those, we recommend that you complete the Terraform on Equinix Metal workshop before proceeding with this workshop.

In particular, this workshop assumes that you already have an Equinix Metal account and understand how to create an Equinix Metal API token and pass it in to Terraform. If you need a refresher on any of those steps, you may refer to the Account Setup and Terraform Install section of the Terraform workshop.

2. Obtain Terraform configuration¶

We will use the equinix-labs/metal-nutanix-cluster module to provision our Nutanix cluster.

Clone that module's GitHub repository to your computer before proceeding with the workshop:

Bash

git clone https://github.com/equinix-labs/terraform-equinix-metal-nutanix-cluster

3. Verify¶

Make sure you have the necessary tools set up by initializing your terraform configuration:

Bash

cd terraform-equinix-metal-nutanix-cluster
terraform init

Discussion¶

Before proceeding to the next part let's take a few minutes to discuss what we did. Here are some questions to start the discussion.

Why does Terraform need an Equinix Metal API token?