5-configure-project.md

Configure a Sample Project in Cloud Assembly

You configure a project to define the users that can provision workloads, the priority and cloud zone of deployments, and the maximum allowed deployment instances.

UI Procedure

1. Log in to the vRealize Automation cloud services console at https://<vra_fqdn>/csp/gateway/portal with a user assigned the Cloud Assembly Administrator service role.

2. On the main navigation bar, click Services.

3. Under My services, click Cloud Assembly.

4. Click the Infrastructure tab.

5. In the left pane, select Administration > Projects.

6. Click New project.

7. On the Summary tab, configure the settings.

   Setting	Example Value
   Name	Sample
   Description	Sample Project

8. Click the Users tab, and for each group, click Add groups, configure these settings, and click Add.

   Setting	Example Value for Project Administrators	Example Value for Project Users
   Group	gg-vra-project-admins-sample	gg-vra-project-users-sample
   Assign role	Administrator	Member

9. Click the Provisioning tab and, from the Add zone drop-down menu, select Cloud zone.

10. Configure these settings, and click Add.

    Setting	Example Value
    Cloud zone	sfo-w01-vc01 / sfo-w01-dc01
    Provisioning priority	1
    Instances limit	0
    Memory limit (GB)	0
    CPU limit	0
    Storage limit(GB)	0

11. If you want to add more cloud zones to the project, repeat step 10 for each additional cloud zone.

12. On the Provisioning tab, under Custom naming, in the Template text box, enter the naming template for the machines in this project, ${project.name}-${resource.name}${###}.

    Object naming will appear similar to sample-web123.

13. Click Create.

14. If you want to create more projects, repeat the procedure for each additional project.

Terraform Procedure

1. Navigate to the Terraform example in the repository.

   cd terraform-examples/vra/vra-project

2. Duplicate the terraform.tfvars.example file to terraform.tfvars in the directory.

   copy terraform.tfvars.example terraform.tfvars

3. Open the terraform.tfvars file, update the variables for your environment, and save the file.

   You can assign multiple cloud zones by updating the project_zones object map with additional cloud zones.

4. If you want to create multiple projects, repeat steps 2 and 3 for each additional project by duplicating the example in a different working directory.

5. Initialize the current directory and the required Terraform providers.

   terraform init

6. Create a Terraform plan and save the output to a file.

   terraform plan -out=tfplan

7. Apply the Terraform plan.

   terraform apply tfplan

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