Vsphere : conditional template cloning

Terraform
1

hi everyone and thanks for your great tools !

i have the following as input variable (through command line) :

variable "virtual_machines" {
	type = map(object({
			Gateway = optional(string,"172.21.10.1")
			VersionWindows = optional(string,"19")
			OSType = optional(string,"CORE")
			ServerType = optional(string,"GENERIC")
			IP= optional(string,"192.168.9.10")
			CPU=optional(number,2)
			Memory=optional(number,4096)
			WindowsKey=optional(string,"Nokey")
			Network=optional(string,"vxw-dvs-38-virtualwire-6-sid-5005-VXLAN_FRONTEND")
			}
		)
	)
}

The key here is the ostype/VersionWindows : i need to iterate that class with for_each, and i need to use a different template for each of my vm : “WindowsServerCore22”, “WindowsServerGUI19” for instance

before implementing the for_each, i used the following code :

data "vsphere_virtual_machine" "template" {
  name          = "${local.vsphere_virtual_machine_template}"
  datacenter_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.dc.id}"
}

locals {
     vsphere_virtual_machine_template="Template-${var.OSType}${var.VersionWindows}"
}

So here, the challenge for me would be to dynamically change the : name = “${local.vsphere_virtual_machine_template}” instruction according to the variables in the foreach…

Do someone have an idea ?

Thanks in advance for your help !

Olivier

2

Hello guys !

a small up here, we could sum this up as : “Can we change “Data” fields with locals variables” ? it seems i cannot use locals in data block. Is there another way? how would you do?

Thanks again everyone