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CloudConnexa Terraform Provider

Abstract

Our official Terraform provider enables you to manage your OpenVPN CloudConnexa resources through Terraform, integrating your secure networking setup into your existing infrastructure automation workflows. With the CloudConnexa provider, Terraform can directly interact with the CloudConnexa API, allowing you to define and update your virtual private network configuration as code.

Our official Terraform provider enables you to manage your OpenVPN CloudConnexa resources through Terraform, integrating your secure networking setup into your existing infrastructure automation workflows. With the CloudConnexa provider, Terraform can directly interact with the CloudConnexa API, allowing you to define and update your virtual private network configuration as code.

To explore all supported resources, data sources, and configuration options, please refer to the official Terraform Registry documentation and the GitHub repository listed below:

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What is Terraform?

Terraform is a widespread Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool used to automate and manage infrastructure provisioning. Developed by HashiCorp, Terraform allows you to define cloud and on-premises resources in declarative configuration files. This approach makes infrastructure management consistent, versionable, and repeatable. By using Terraform, teams can treat infrastructure like software – enabling collaboration, code reviews, and automation of deployments. In short, Terraform streamlines infrastructure setup and changes, reducing manual effort and the potential for errors.

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What is a Terraform CloudConnexa Provider?

A Terraform provider is a plugin that allows Terraform to interact with and manage resources on an external platform by translating Terraform configuration into API calls to the external platform's service. With the CloudConnexa provider, Terraform can directly interact with the CloudConnexa API, allowing you to define and update your virtual private network configuration as code.

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What are the key benefits of using the CloudConnexa Terraform Provider?

The key benefits are:

  • Unified Management: Manage CloudConnexa configurations (such as networks, connectors, and user access) alongside the rest of your infrastructure in one Terraform workflow. This creates a single source of truth for both cloud infrastructure and VPN settings.

  • Automation and Consistency: Terraform automates the provisioning and configuration of VPN resources. It ensures that changes to CloudConnexa (like adding or removing users or changing routes and connectors) are executed in a controlled, repeatable manner, minimizing manual steps.

  • Time Savings & Reliability: Deploy updates faster and with greater confidence. By describing CloudConnexa resources in code, you reduce the risk of human error and can consistently apply changes across environments. Terraform's plan/apply process makes routine tasks (for example, onboarding a new user or setting up a new network connector) quicker and less error-prone.

  • Open Source and Community-Driven: The CloudConnexa provider is open-source and was developed by OpenVPN in collaboration with community contributors. This means you can inspect the source, contribute improvements, and trust that the provider will evolve with community and OpenVPN support.

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