Automating ESXI/vSphere 8.0 with Terraform – A to Z Complete Guide
⚡ vSphere 8.0 Automation with Terraform – Deploy your Windows & Linux VMs in just a few clicks!
In this comprehensive tutorial, I'll show you how to fully automate the creation of virtual machines (VMs) on VMware vSphere / ESXi 8.0 using Terraform.
You will learn how to:
✅ Configure your vSphere 8.0 / ESXi environment
✅ Connect Terraform to your VMware infrastructure
✅ Automatically deploy Windows, Ubuntu, and Debian VMs from templates
✅ Easily manage the number of VMs to create
✅ Quickly delete your VMs with terraform destroy
🧭 Chapters
00:00 Introduction and video objectives
00:00:33 Preparing the vSphere environment
00:01:09 Installing the vCenter server (OVA)
00:03:08 Installing a DNS server (Windows Server)
00:06:26 Configuring the DNS manager
00:07:48 Finalizing the vCenter installation (Stage 2)
00:09:15 Connecting to vSphere and managing licenses
00:10:14 Adding the ESXi host to vCenter Data
00:11:23 Creating the "Terraform" user in vSphere
00:12:26 Creating virtual machine templates
00:14:38 Explaining Terraform configuration files
00:22:50 Automated deployment of 3 Ubuntu VMs with Terraform
00:27:14 Automated destruction of VMs (Terraform Destroy)
00:28:21 Deploying 1 Windows VM (Modifying the "count")
00:30:04 Adding a new template (Debian) and deploying 5 VMs
00:33:43 Conclusion
🔗 Terraform files and scripts
👉 GitHub Terraform vSphere 8.0
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