These are my notes on using Terraform to provision libvirt/kvm instances. Though Terraform really shines in the cloud, I wanted to set this to experiment with Terraform on local hardware. It took a lot longer than I expected so this is to document my missteps and eventual resolution.
Setup Host Machine
Install Terraform
Instill libvirt development packages
Install Golang
Install mkisofs
Download/Build libvirt
Check out the git repository
Build the binary
Copy to the requisite paths
Create Terraform plan
Use the following
terraform {
required_version ">= 0.13"
required_providers {
libvirt = {
source = "dmacvicar/libvirt"
version= "0.6.0"
}
}
}
Connection URI
uri = "qemu+ssh://root@192.168.5.201/system" <- Use this if you have SSH key to root
uri