Deploy Windows server in an IBM Cloud VPC using Terraform

This asset provides the scripts to provision a single zone VPC with access to the internet. Then deploy a Windows virtual service instance into the VPC using Terraform.

Prerequisites

1. Active IBM Cloud account with credentials for an IBMid or ServiceID that can deploy VPC infrastructure.

2. Access to a public SSH key.

3. Update the versions of Terraform and IBM Cloud Terraform Provider in the versions.tf file.

4. Review the variables in the variables.tf file required to deploy this pattern.

   • Add values for iaasapikey, paasapikey, iaasusername for authorization.
   • Add desired ibm_region, availability_zone and riaas_endpoint endpoint in variable.tf files.
   • Add ssh_key value which will be required while creating VSI.

Steps to Deploy pattern

1. Run Terraform script:

   • cd infrastructure-code
   • terraform init
   • terraform plan
   • terraform apply

2. Test by connecting to the instance using Remote Desktop protocol using the floating IP as target. To properly connect,

   • Get encrypted password from UI and saved to a file, decode it using:

     cat UI_PASSWORD_FILE | base64 --decode > decoded_base64_password_file
     

   • Decrypt it using the SSH key used to create the instance:

     openssl pkeyutl -in decoded_base64_password_file -decrypt -inkey ~/.ssh/id_rsa -pkeyopt rsa_padding_mode:oaep -pkeyopt rsa_oaep_md:sha256 -pkeyopt rsa_mgf1_md:sha256 > finalpass
     

     cat finalpass
     

Notes:

• New VPC will be assigned to new resource group vpc_test created in given region (ibm-region from variables.tf).

• You need Administrator access to the given resource_group, in order to view encrypted password on VSI.