terraform-provider-esxi VS vagrant-vmware-esxi

terraform { required_version = ">= 0.13" required_providers { esxi = { source = "registry.terraform.io/josenk/esxi" # # For more information, see the provider source documentation: # https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi # https://registry.terraform.io/providers/josenk/esxi } } backend "remote" {} } provider "esxi" { esxi_hostname = var.esxi_hostname esxi_hostport = var.esxi_hostport esxi_hostssl = var.esxi_hostssl esxi_username = var.esxi_username esxi_password = var.esxi_password } resource "esxi_guest" "vm" { count = var.vm_count guest_name = "${var.guest_name_prefix}-${count.index}" disk_store = var.disk_store clone_from_vm = var.clone_from_vm network_interfaces { virtual_network = var.virtual_network nic_type = var.nic_type } }

I’ve been using this in small environments where vCenter uses too many resources: https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi

Any experience with Terraform? Theres a custom provider available at the ESXi level that will get you where you need to go: https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi

not super critical but is there a terraform provider for proxmox? I looked at proxmox a while back when building my home server but went with esxi free because of the community provider - https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi

I've been using https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi with the free version of esxi for a few months and it's not too bad. Doesn't have everything, but pretty functional.

For VMs with ESXi you might want to look at https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi

Terraform does what ever the provider has.You can literally use terraform anything. See https://github.com/josenk/terraform-provider-esxi this does SSH calls into ESXi to change some configs and then runs some ESXi commands.

Yes. With this plugin https://github.com/josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi you can use ESXi as a back-end for Vagrant, an open source tool we use at work for spinning up virtual test environments.