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Gilles Chekroun Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions Architect --- With my  recent post about using Terraform for VMware Cloud on AWS provisioning, I had to provision OVA templates in my VMC vCenter so I would be able to use the Terraform vSphere provider to clone and deploy VMs. Since this requires access to ESXi inside VMware Cloud on AWS, it's not possible to do it from an external machine like my Mac over the internet. Only coming from a VPN connection or a Direct Connect will allow this but . . .  . . . it is possible to use an AWS EC2 instance on the attached VPC to provision and this is the goal of this post. AWS EC2 Deployment Using AWS terraform provider, I am deploying a very simple EC2 without any initialisation. I could do the provisioning at this time but my code needs output parameters stored in the tfstate file. What I need now is t he Public IP and t he Public DNS name of my EC2 instance. This will be part of the terraform output. Connect to the

Gilles Chekroun Lead VMware Cloud on AWS Solutions Architect --- With the recent development of new VMware Terraform providers for NSX-T and VMware Cloud on AWS, we have now the possibility to create code for a full automation and deployment of  Infrastructure including AWS, VMC, NSX-T and vSphere. Architecture This code architecture will be done in 3 phases and the output of one phase will be used as input for another. The code is done using Terraform modules . The first phase will use AWS provider combined with VMC provider. Terraform AWS provider and the VPC module We will start with terraform.tfvars file to hold our secret parameters. // VMC Credentials vmc_token = "Your VMC API Token" // AWS Credentials access_key = "Your AWS Access Key" secret_key = "Your AWS Secret Key" AWS_account = "Your AWS Account Number" // ORG ID my_org_id = "Your VMC ORG ID" The variables.tf file will hold different p