Deploy YugabyteDB in Google Cloud Platform with Terraform

Prerequisites

Download and install Terraform.

Verify the installation using the terraform command.

$ terraform

You should see output similar to the following.

Usage: terraform [--version] [--help] <command> [args]
...
Common commands:
    apply              Builds or changes infrastructure
    console            Interactive console for Terraform interpolations
    destroy            Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure
    env                Workspace management
    fmt                Rewrites config files to canonical format

Create a terraform configuration file

1. Create a terraform file with provider details.

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   provider "google"
   {
     # Provide your Creadentilals
     credentials = "${file("yugabyte-pcf-bc8114281026.json")}"
   
     # The name of your GCP project
     project = "<Your-GCP-Project-Name>"
   }
   

   To obtain your credentials file, refer to Getting started with authentication in the GCP documentation.

2. Add the Yugabyte Terraform module to your file.

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   module "yugabyte-db-cluster"
   {
     source = "github.com/Yugabyte/terraform-gcp-yugabyte.git"
   
     # The name of the cluster to be created.
     cluster_name = "test-cluster"
   
     # key pair.
     ssh_private_key = "SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_HERE"
     ssh_public_key = "SSH_PUBLIC_KEY_HERE"
     ssh_user = "SSH_USER_NAME_HERE"
   
     # The region name where the nodes should be spawned.
     region_name = "YOUR_VPC_REGION"
   
     # Replication factor.
     replication_factor = "3"
   
     # The number of nodes in the cluster, this cannot be lower than the replication factor.
     node_count = "3"
   }
   

Create a cluster

Init terraform first if you haven't already done so.

$ terraform init

To check what changes are going to happen in your environment, run the following:

$ terraform plan

Run the following to create the instances and bring up the cluster:

$ terraform apply

After the cluster is created, go to the URL http://<node ip or dns name>:7000 to view the UI. You can find the node's IP or DNS by running the following:

$ terraform state show google_compute_instance.yugabyte_node[0]

You can check the state of the nodes at any point by running the following command:

$ terraform show

Verify resources created

The following resources are created by this module:

• module.terraform-gcp-yugabyte.google_compute_instance.yugabyte_node

  The GCP VM instances.

  For a cluster named test-cluster, the instances are named yugabyte-test-cluster-n1, yugabyte-test-cluster-n2, and yugabyte-test-cluster-n3.

• module.terraform-gcp-yugabyte.google_compute_firewall.Yugabyte-Firewall

  The firewall rule that allows various clients to access the YugabyteDB cluster.

  For a cluster named test-cluster, this firewall rule is named default-yugabyte-test-cluster-firewall with the ports 7000, 9000, 9042, and 6379 open to all.

• module.terraform-gcp-yugabyte.google_compute_firewall.Yugabyte-Intra-Firewall

  The firewall rule that allows communication internal to the cluster.

  For a cluster named test-cluster, this firewall rule is named default-yugabyte-test-cluster-intra-firewall with the ports 7100 and 9100 open to all other VM instances in the same network.

• module.terraform-gcp-yugabyte.null_resource.create_yugabyte_universe

  A local script that configures the newly created instances to form a new YugabyteDB universe.

Destroy the cluster (optional)

To destroy what you just created, run the following command:

$ terraform destroy