With this template, you can use IBM Cloud Schematics to create two virtual private clouds (VPCs) link by a transit gateway in your IBM Cloud account. Schematics uses Terraform as the infrastructure-as-code engine. With this template, you can create and manage infrastructure as a single unit as follows. For more information about how to use this template, see the IBM Cloud Schematics documentation.
Included:
- 2 virtual private cloud instances, in 3 zones.
- 1 transit gateway attached to both VPC.
Before you can apply the template in IBM Cloud, complete the following steps.
- Make sure that you have the following permissions in IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management:
- Manager service access role for IBM Cloud Schematics
- Operator platform role for VPC Infrastructure
- Download the
ibmcloudcommand line interface (CLI) tool. - Install the
ibmcloud terraformandibmcloud isCLI plug-ins for Schematics and VPC infrastructure. Tip: To update your current plug-ins, runibmcloud plugin update.ibmcloud plugin install schematicsibmcloud plugin install vpc-infrastructure
- Create or use an existing SSH key for VPC virtual servers.
When you select the 2-zone-vpctemplate from the IBM Cloud catalog, you set up your deployment variables from the Create page. When you apply the template, IBM Cloud Schematics provisions the resources according to the values that you specify for these variables.
Before you apply your template, you can customize the following default variable values.
| Variable Name | Description | Default Value |
|---|---|---|
region |
The region to create your two VPCs in, such as us-south. The VPCs are created in two separate zones within the same region. To get a list of all regions, run ibmcloud is regions. |
eu-de |
After you apply the template your VPC resources are successfully provisioned in IBM Cloud, you can review information such as VPC identifiers in the Schematics log files, in the Terraform SHOW section.