Provision a VDC and server instance using Terraform

The below Terraform files will create a new IONOS VDC and server instance, it will also copy a locally specified SSH key for the root key and finally copy a hello.txt file to /tmp/hello.txt. Once deployed you will be able to login to the instance with your SSH key.

Prerequisites:

You will need terraform installed Hashicorp how to install Terraform
You will need to set your IONOS username and password locally as environment variables (see export in deploy to the right)
You will need to create a directory and have an SSH key that you would like to use
You will need to create 3 files locally
1. terraform-simple-server.tf will contain the main script (below)
2. variables.tf will contain the username and password settings to use in this deployment (below)
3. hello.txt to copy up to the provisioned instance

terraform-simple-server.tf

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# Terraform IONOS simple server setup

terraform {
  required_providers {
    ionoscloud = {
      source  = "ionos-cloud/ionoscloud"
    }
  }
}

provider "ionoscloud" {
  username = var.ionos_username
  password = var.ionos_password
}

resource "ionoscloud_datacenter" "terra-bash-script" {
  location    = "us/ewr"
  name        = "terraform-wp1"
  description = "terraform sandbox bash script"
}

resource "ionoscloud_lan" "terraform-lan-1" {
  datacenter_id = ionoscloud_datacenter.terra-bash-script.id
  name          = "terraform-lan-1"
  public        = true
}

resource "ionoscloud_server" "terraform-wp1" {
  name              = "terraform-wp1"
  datacenter_id     = ionoscloud_datacenter.terra-bash-script.id
  cores             = 2
  ram               = 4 * 1024
  cpu_family        = "AMD_OPTERON"
  availability_zone = "AUTO"
  image_name        = "ubuntu"
  # path below is the path to the public key already created you want to copy to the server instance, enter your local path
  ssh_key_path = [
    "/home/user/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub",
  ]

connection {
    type        = "ssh"
    user        = "root"
    private_key = file("~/.ssh/id_ed25519")
    host        = self.primary_ip
  }

nic {
    lan             = ionoscloud_lan.terraform-lan-1.id
    dhcp            = true
    firewall_active = false
    name            = "wan"
  }

volume {
    name      = "terraform-wp1-vol1"
    size      = 50
    disk_type = "HDD"
  }

provisioner "file" {
    source      = "hello.txt"
    destination = "/tmp/hello.txt"
  }
  
  timeouts {
    create = "30m"
    update = "30m"
    delete = "30m"
  }
}

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