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I am currently using virt-install to create new VMs on KVM/QEMU and then using Terraform to configure software on them. I want to combine these steps and use a Terraform provider to automate VM creation but then be able to tear the whole system down with a single command. Can anyone suggest a suitable Terraform provider to achieve this?

I am currently using matchbox with dnsmasq to PXE boot my VMs so all my solution needs to do is create a VM using Terraform with the necessary flags, for example:

virt-install --name "test" --network=bridge=bridge0,mac=FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF --boot=hd,network --memory=1024 --vcpus=2 --pxe --disk pool=default,size=10 --os-type=linux --os-variant=generic --noautoconsole --events on_poweroff=preserve

and be able to simply run terraform destroy to undo everything

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The best KVM provider I've found so far is terraform-provider-libvirt. It provides full support for managing KVM VMs from Terraform and it still under very active development.

The only minor downside is that binaries are currently only available for openSUSE - other platforms require you to compile from source (like Terraform it's written in Go).

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    Now terraform-provider-libvirt release binary builds for Centos 7, Fedora 28, Ubuntu 18.04 and Open SUSE github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt/releases
    – mmv-ru
    Mar 9, 2019 at 0:45
  • I don't think that module provides pure automated --pxe boot. Yes, you can pass ignition files directly, putting under the question - do you need Matchbox at all, but... personally i also want to pass mac address and --pxe argument so VM could boot and grab ignition on its own without forcing Terraform to deal with those configs. In my case i have dedicated "bootstrap" server which is set up by Ansible and has DHCP, DNS, Matchbox, TFTP and iPXE. So basically, if i run the same command as author provided, my VMs runs and configures automatically.
    – Dzintars
    Oct 7, 2019 at 10:20
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There are now packages for CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu as well:

https://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=systemsmanagement:terraform&package=terraform-provider-libvirt

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