Create a Gloo provider for Terraform

[totallyGreg]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Providers in Terraform allow static contracts and clear documentation of the various options that can be configured. it would be nice to query the custom resources, like the upstreams, to aid in wiring everything together

Describe the solution you'd like

Creating a Terraform provider would allow customers the ability to define their complex infrastructure consistently

Describe alternatives you've considered

using the helm provider to define Gloo values.

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[cowboygneox]

We use Terraform and its various providers instead of Helm. We currently manage Gloo configuration via Terraform-controlled kube configs, not unlike Helm (but Terraform's templating is so much easier). Often we run into times that it would be ideal to be able to query Gloo's custom resources so that we can validate or wire in information, like when Gloo automatically creates Upstreams.

Terraform providers also do a far better job than Helm at documenting what options are available and why since all of the contract is a static schema.

Helm may still be ideal for the initial deploy, but a provider to manipulate or even just query the resources would be great.

I would use a provider that created and queried VirtualServices, RouteTables, Upstreams, RateLimitConfigs, etc.

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