terraform VS terraform-provider-restapi

2. Terraform (hashicorp/terraform) – Infrastructure as Code

Terraform is used to manage infrastructure. You can define your servers, databases, and networks in code, and Terraform will create them for you. It’s like DevOps magic. Written in Go.

Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform

Terraform or OpenTofu for infra as code

For more information on Docker, you can refer to the official Docker documentation and explore relevant open-source projects on Docker's GitHub. Additionally, for Terraform-related resources, check out the official Terraform documentation and Terraform GitHub.

In this post, I will share WebRTC.ventures' best practices in automating the deployment of AI-powered voice assistants for Amazon Connect, moving beyond manual, click-by-click setups to a robust, scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach. We’ll explore how to manage both static and dynamic resources, leverage tools like Terraform and AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), and even set up an automated deployment pipeline using Github Actions to deploy your conversational IVR solutions efficiently.

We manage infrastructure with Terraform and lean heavily on GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Very simple but it works! Oh and a lot of bash scripts of course.

You can download Terraform from terraform.io and install it on your machine.

Claude also created the IAC for deploying the app on Hetzner, using Terraform as the configuration tool. I only had to provide my Hetzner API key for VPS resource provisioning and my Cloudflare API key for domain name DNS entry management. 🌐

Terraform Installed: Download and install Terraform from the website: https://www.terraform.io/

Hi folks,

My company has an OpenAPI3 spec. We have a community supported Terraform provider that we are moving in-house soon.

I was wondering why there is no easy way to generate a Terraform provider from an OpenAPI spec?

There's no open issue in the generator project[0].

Some googling turned up a couple of projects[1],[2], but they only support Swagger; OpenAPI is the successor to Swagger. There is some progress on supporting OpenAPI[3]. I also found this provider, which is a thin wrapper around REST calls[4].

It's not discussed very much on the Terraform forum[5].

Either I'm missing the need for this or underestimating the difficulty.

0: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+terraform

1: https://www.logicmonitor.com/blog/how-to-write-a-custom-terraform-provider-automatically-with-openapi

2: https://github.com/dikhan/terraform-provider-openapi

3: https://github.com/dikhan/terraform-provider-openapi/pull/320

4: https://github.com/Mastercard/terraform-provider-restapi

5: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/sdk-provider-development-anyone-ever-used-code-generation-or-other-tools-to-simplify-their-provider-development/20301/2

Unless CloudFormation has some way to work with external systems? In my case I wasn't even using a built-in Terraform provider, but a REST API provider which calls our external service's API.

There is also Mastercard/Rest provider which IMHO results in a bit more natural HCL2 syntax.

I've used https://github.com/Mastercard/terraform-provider-restapi successfully with a cloud provider which provides a suitable HTTP API. There was a bit of fiddling with JSON formatting and their API docs, but it wasn't too hard all in all.

But like you say - now I've done that, I want to do it for every UI that I'm forced to log in to!