Deploying a ROSA HCP cluster with Terraform

This guide will walk you through deploying a ROSA HCP cluster using Terraform. This is a great way to get started with ROSA and to automate the deployment of your clusters.

Pre-requisites

• You need the git binary installed on your machine. You can download it from the git website .

• You need to have the terraform binary installed on your machine. You can download it from the Terraform website .

• You need to have the jq binary installed on your machine. You can download it from the jq website .

• You need to have the oc binary installed on your machine. You can download it from the OpenShift website .

• You need to have the rosa binary installed on your machine. You can download it from the ROSA website .

• You need to have an OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM) account. You can sign up for an account on the OCM website .

• Get an OCM API token. You can do this by logging into OCM and going to the API tokens page .

• You need to log in to OCM and create a refresh token. You can do this by running the following command:

  Use the OCM API token you created in the previous step to log in.

HCP ROSA Cluster

1. Clone down the terraform repository

2. Save some environment variables

   Mac

   Linux

   Note: You may want to customize some of these settings to match your needs. see the variables.tf file for options.

3. Create a Plan and Apply it

   If everything goes to plan, after about 20 minutes you should have a cluster available to use.

4. Log into OpenShift