Infoblox NIOS Terraform Provider

This is a provider plugin for Terraform to manage Infoblox NIOS (Network Identity Operating System) resources using Terraform infrastructure as code solutions. The plugin enables lifecycle management of Infoblox NIOS DDI resources.

The latest version of Infoblox provider is v2.4.0

Provider Features

The provider plugin has NIOS DDI resources represented as Terraform resources and data sources. The consolidated list of supported resources and data sources is as follows:

Resources:

• Network view (infoblox_network_view)
• Network container (infoblox_ipv4_network_container, infoblox_ipv6_network_container)
• Network (infoblox_ipv4_network, infoblox_ipv6_network)
• A-record (infoblox_a_record)
• AAAA-record (infoblox_aaaa_record)
• PTR-record (infoblox_ptr_record)
• CNAME-record (infoblox_cname_record)
• MX-record (infoblox_mx_record)
• TXT-record (infoblox_txt_record)
• SRV-record (infoblox_srv_record)
• Host record as a backend for the following operations:
  • Allocation and de-allocation of an IP address from a Network (infoblox_ip_allocation)
  • Association and de-association of an IP address from a VM (infoblox_ip_association)

All of the above resources are supported with comment and ext_attrs fields. DNS records and infoblox_ip_allocation resource have the ttl field's support.

Data Sources:

• Network View (infoblox_network_view)
• IPv4 Network (infoblox_ipv4_network)
• IPv4 Network Container (infoblox_ipv4_network_container)
• A-record (infoblox_a_record)
• AAAA-record (infoblox_aaaa_record)
• CNAME-record (infoblox_cname_record)
• PTR-record (infoblox_ptr_record)
• MX-record (infoblox_mx_record)
• TXT-record (infoblox_txt_record)
• SRV-record (infoblox_srv_record)

All of the above data sources are supported with comment and ext_attr fields. DNS records have the ttl and zone fields' support.

Quick Start

• Getting the provider plugin
• Developing on the provider plugin

Documentation

The comprehensive documentation of plugin is available at Terraform registry and on Infoblox internet site as well.

Prerequisites

Whether you intend to use the published plug-in or the customized version that you have built yourself, you must complete the following prerequisites:

• Install and set up a physical or virtual Infoblox NIOS appliance that is running on NIOS and has necessary licenses installed. To try out the plug-in, you can download and install the evaluation version of vNIOS from the Infoblox Download Center. For more information, see sections Downloading NIOS and Setting Up NIOS.
• Download and install Terraform (as of now, only version 0.14 is supported).
• Configure the access permissions for Terraform to interact with NIOS Grid objects.
• If you plan to develop a plug-in that includes features that are not in the published version, then install the infblox-go-client and Go programming language.
• To use the Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for Terraform, you must either define the following extensible attributes in NIOS or install the Cloud Network Automation license in the NIOS Grid, which adds the extensible attributes by default:
  • Tenant ID: String Type
  • CMP Type: String Type
  • Cloud API Owned: List Type (Values: True, False)
• For creation of host records using the infoblox_ip_allocation and infoblox_ip_association resources, you must create the extensible attribute Terraform Internal ID of String Type in Infoblox NIOS Grid Manager. For steps, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Documentation.

Limitations

The limitations of Infoblox IPAM Plug-In for Terraform version 2.3.0 are as follows:

• No support for creating a DNS zone. Therefore, to work with DNS records, you must ensure that appropriate DNS zones have been created in NIOS.
• Allocation and association through a fixed-address record are not supported.
• For infoblox_ip_allocation and infoblox_ip_association resources: creation of a host record with multiple IP addresses of the same type is not supported. But you can create a host record with a single IPv4 and IPv6 address (of both IP types at the same host record).
• For infoblox_ipv4_allocation, infoblox_ipv6_allocation, infoblox_ipv4_association and infoblox_ipv6_association resources: creation of a host record with multiple IP addresses of the same type or a combination of IPv4 and IPv6 types, is not supported.
• Authority delegation of IP addresses and DNS name spaces to a cloud platform appliance, is not supported.
• Inheritance of extensible attributes is not supported.
• Required extensible attributes specified in NIOS Grid Manager are not validated by the plug-in.
• In NIOS, the gateway IP addresses of networks created using the infoblox_ipv4_network and infoblox_ipv6_network resources display as "IPv4 Reservation" and "IPv6 Fixed Address" respectively.
• Use of capital letters in the domain name of a Terraform resource may lead to unexpected results. For example, when you use a Terraform data source to search for a DNS record that has capital letters in its name, no results are returned if you specify the name in the same text case. You must specify the name in lower case.
• The import functionality is not supported by the following resources (they are deprecated and not supported anymore):
  • infoblox_ipv4_allocation
  • infoblox_ipv6_allocation
  • infoblox_ipv4_association
  • infoblox_ipv6_association
• The Update functionality is currently not working for the CIDR field in A and AAAA records.
• The fetch functionality in data sources returns output for only one matching object even if it finds multiple objects matching the search criteria.