We’re excited to announce the latest version of our Terraform provider! PacketFabric Terraform provider version 0.5 is now live. This release expands your ability to manage cloud infrastructure and adds the ability to control network connectivity via Terraform.
What’s New
You can now use PacketFabric Terraform provider to automatically manage private network infrastructure and connectivity to the cloud:
- Create and manage Cloud Router for AWS, Google, Azure, Oracle, IBM, IPsec, and Ports
- Create and manage Oracle Cloud and IBM Cloud Services
- Create and manage Marketplace Backbone, Virtual Circuits, and Internet Exchange (IX) connection requests
- Create and manage Point-to-Point Circuits
- Manage Capacity Burst for Backbone Virtual Circuits
- Get PacketFabric Locations, port, and zone availabilities
Stay tuned for more feature updates and improvements coming in January!
Why Implement PacketFabric’s Terraform Provider?
Terraform is a HashiCorp open-source tool that enables you to predictably create, change, and efficiently improve your infrastructure by using code. You can easily define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share.
You can use PacketFabric’s Terraform provider to access, manage, and deploy PacketFabric’s network resources with minimal effort and time from network engineering.
There are many benefits of using Terraform, including helping your organization do more with less and save time and money! Businesses can utilize PacketFabric Terraform provider and the thousands of existing providers to fit your organization’s infrastructure and reduce operations costs, TCO, and maintenance costs.
Market research firm IDC states that companies lose 20 to 30 percent of their revenue to inefficiencies every year. By automating your scalable infrastructure instantly with PacketFabric Terraform provider, your DevOps team will have more time to work on other initiatives, improving communication, opportunity cost and decreasing the risk of human error when managing your infrastructure.
Use Cases:
We put together some use cases using the PacketFabric Terraform provider along with other providers. The use cases contain examples of HCL code and simple instructions to get started.
Multi-Cloud Connectivity
Multi-cloud networking is becoming more popular as enterprises look to employ best-of-breed cloud resources, optimize cloud data center locations, and reduce concentration risk. With the PacketFabric Terraform provider, organizations can quickly respond to business demands by deploying a few lines of code to instantly scale multi-cloud infrastructure.
Redundant Connectivity between 6 locations
Optimize time by automating the creation of a mesh network of Backbone Virtual Circuits between six different locations or ports on PacketFabric’s 65+Tb network in seconds for high redundancy connectivity.
Find the Quick Start code here.
Hybrid-Cloud
Organizations in need of a Hybrid Cloud infrastructure can automate the build of a PacketFabric Cloud Router between Google Cloud Platform and a branch location, on-premises user, or a remote data center.
Find the Quick Start code here.
Marketplace
Automate the provisioning and connect with other companies by provisioning a hosted cloud connection or virtual circuit to an ecosystem of providers hosted on PacketFabric’s marketplace.
Find the Quick Start code here.
New to PacketFabric’s Terraform Provider?
Here are a few resource links to help you get started:
Learn More
Watch our recent webinar, Simplify Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Automation using Terraform and PacketFabric.
Already familiar with Terraform and want to see how you can add network infrastructure to the mix? Check out our services, request a demo, or register an account to get started today.