Object Storage - Manage an Object Storage bucket with Terraform

Requirements

• Terraform CLI installed
• Access to the OVHcloud API (create your login by consulting this guide)
• A Public Cloud project in your OVHcloud account

• Access to the OVHcloud Terraform provider, which is available in the official Terraform registry

  You have a version >= 2.0 installed. You can follow our How to Use Terraform guide.

Getting information about your API tokens

The “OVH provider” must be configured with a set of credentials:

• an application_key
• an application_secret
• a consumer_key

Why?

Because, behind the scenes, the OVH Terraform provider makes requests to the OVHcloud APIs.

To retrieve this necessary information, please follow the tutorial First steps with the OVHcloud APIs.

Once you've successfully generated your OVHcloud tokens, keep them. You'll need to set them in the next few minutes.

The last piece of information you'll need is the service_name: this is the ID of your Public Cloud project.

How do I get it?

In the Public Cloud section of the OVHcloud Control Panel, you can retrieve your service name ID using the Copy to clipboard button.

You can also use this information in Terraform resource definition files.

Instructions

If you would like to access the provider's documentation on Object Storage, click here.

Configuration

First, create a provider.tf file with the minimum version, the US endpoint (“ovh-us”), and the keys you obtained in this guide.

Terraform:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    ovh = {
      source  = "ovh/ovh"
      version = "~> 2.1" # greater than or equal to 2.1
    }
  }
}

provider "ovh" {
  endpoint           = "ovh-us"
  application_key    = "<your_access_key>"
  application_secret = "<your_application_secret>"
  consumer_key       = "<your_consumer_key>"
}

Here, we've defined the ovh-us endpoint because we want to call the OVHcloud US API, but other endpoints exist, depending on your needs:

• ovh-eu pour OVHcloud Europe API
• ovh-ca pour OVHcloud North-America API

Create a bucket

You can create a file named object_storage_simple.tf and write the following:

# Create an Object Storage bucket
resource "ovh_cloud_project_storage" "my_bucket" {
 service_name = "service_name" # Replace with your OVHcloud project ID
 region_name = "US-EAST-VA" # Replace with the desired region in uppercase.
  name = "object-storage-simple"
  versioning = {
    status = "enabled"
  }
  encryption = {
    sse_algorithm = "AES256"
  }
}

You can create your resource by entering the following command:

terraform apply

Delete a bucket

You can delete your bucket and all the objects it contains by entering the following command:

terraform destroy

Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other Object Storage support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

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