Terraform Provisioning for Resources on Open Telekom Cloud

• An already authorized user must create an user at https://console.otc.t-systems.com/iam/users with "password at first login" for dashboard access, next steps are for new user:

• Create terraform-username at https://console.otc.t-systems.com/iam/users to get access key id and secret for terraform access

• Save as environment in ~.bash_profile or ~.bashrc or Windows-Umgebungsvariablen (restart) like:

  export TF_VAR_otc_access_key='sfwr2334c4'
  export TF_VAR_otc_secret_key='gertg245f5435f5ervtrete'
  export TF_VAR_db_passwd='rwevt43' -->Ask an ITC
  export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='sfwr2334c4'
  export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='gertg245f5435f5ervtrete'

• Install Terraform, see terraform.io (windows need environment entry, behind proxy set HTTP_PROXY=http://XXX:XX)

• Checkout repo

  git clone https://github.com/samply/open-telekom-cloud.git
  cd open-telekom-cloud

• Add your ssh key as ignition_user and at this user to ignition_config of server for ssh access to server (main.tf)

• To build a test instance, being accessible at https:// (search | auth | mdr) .test.germanbiobanknode.de:

  terraform workspace new test
  terraform workspace select test

• To return to productive instance:

  terraform workspace select default

• Init server, db, networks, ... with:

  terraform init
  terraform plan
  terraform apply

• Connect over ssh with user core@ prod=80.158.32.82 or test=80.158.4.11

Container Linux Images

Our VMs use Container Linux basis images. One can download them here. The images have to be imported into the OTC Image Management Service. The following steps have to be taken:

• download coreos_production_openstack_image.img.bz2 from CoreOS
• unpack the image
• use s3cmd to upload the image to our coreos.obs.eu-de.otc.t-systems.com bucket
• create an image in Image Management Service/Private Images
  • select the uploaded images from the bucket
  • do not select any OS
  • select 30 GB as disk size
  • name the image container-linux-<version>
  • submit the creation

Managed Postgres Database

The Terraform Module Postgres describes a managed postgres database resource (RDS). The database is available under the hostname postgres.openstacklocal.

Root Access to the Database

• Create a SSH tunnel to the database server

ssh -L 5432:postgres:5432 otc-server-prod

• Access the database on localhost with user root

Create a Database and User

CREATE DATABASE auth;
CREATE USER auth_user WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '...';
GRANT auth_user TO root;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE auth TO auth_user;

Create New Let's Encrypt Certificate

Check that the certificate isn't already known:

docker run --rm -v /etc/nginx/ssl:/etc/letsencrypt certbot/certbot:v0.36.0 certificates

First do a dry run for each domain:

docker run -it --rm \
  -v /etc/nginx/ssl:/etc/letsencrypt \
  -v acme-challenge:/certbot \
  certbot/certbot:v0.36.0 \
  certonly --dry-run --agree-tos --webroot --webroot-path /certbot \
  -d <domain>

If Nginx is down because of missing certificates, uncomment all server blocks listening to 443.

Than do the same removing --dry-run

Re-destroy

• In the "Volume Backup Service" section choose your previously created backup of server-data-(test/default)
• Select "Restore Disk". If errors occur, select "Create Disk" with same name and size, search for its id and replace :

  terraform import module.server.opentelekomcloud_blockstorage_volume_v2.data <id>

• Apply and restore database