Aiven Terraform Provider

The Terraform provider for Aiven.io, an open source data platform as a service.

See the official documentation to learn about all the possible services and resources.

Quick start

• Signup for Aiven
• Create your authentication token
• Create a file named main.tf with the content below:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aiven = {
      source  = "aiven/aiven"
      version = "x.y.z" # check out the latest version in the release section
    }
  }
}

provider "aiven" {
  api_token = "your-api-token"
}

resource "aiven_pg" "postgresql" {
  project                = "your-project-name"
  service_name           = "postgresql"
  cloud_name             = "google-europe-west3"
  plan                   = "startup-4"

  termination_protection = true
}

output "postgresql_service_uri" {
  value     = aiven_pg.postgresql.service_uri
  sensitive = true
}

• Run these commands in your terminal:

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply
psql "$(terraform output -raw postgresql_service_uri)"

Voilà, a PostgreSQL database.

A word of caution

Recreating stateful services with Terraform will possibly delete the service and all its data before creating it again. Whenever the Terraform plan indicates that a service will be deleted or replaced, a catastrophic action is possibly about to happen.

Some properties, like project and the resource name, cannot be changed and it will trigger a resource replacement.

To avoid any issues, please set the termination_protection property to true on all production services, it will prevent Terraform to remove the service until the flag is set back to false again. While it prevents a service to be deleted, any logical databases, topics or other configurations may be removed even when this section is enabled. Be very careful!

Contributing

Bug reports and patches are very welcome, please post them as GitHub issues and pull requests at https://github.com/aiven/terraform-provider-aiven. Please review the guides below.

• Contributing guidelines
• Code of conduct

Please see our security policy to report any possible vulnerabilities or serious issues.

License

terraform-provider-aiven is licensed under the MIT license. Full license text is available in the LICENSE file. Please note that the project explicitly does not require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement) from its contributors.

Credits

The original version of the Aiven Terraform provider was written and maintained by Jelmer Snoeck.