The SUSE Manager team currently uses vagrantup.com to create developer environments (a project known as suminator).

Doing the same with terraform.io and the terraform libvirt provider we could:

• orchestrate setups with multiple Virtual Machines (Vagrant does not support that)
• provide an all-packaged solution (Vagrant is not packaged/very hard at the moment)
• allow deployments to public clouds (eg. AWS) for scalability tests
• allow deployments to the Engineering Cloud instance, to avoid using team-specific servers

Results:

• SUMa servers and clients supported, all configurations previously supported by suminator
• dependency between clients and servers handled correctly
• OpenStack Cloud and libvirt backends equally supported. Tested on the HackWeek Engineering Cloud
• one Terraform bug found (PR with a fix in the works)
• 7 pull requests merged into the terraform libvirt provider

A daily diary is available here.

git repo of the sumaform project