» Brightbox Provider

The Brightbox provider is used to interact with services on Brightbox. The provider needs to be configured with the proper credentials before it can be used.

Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.

» Example Usage

# Configure the Brightbox Provider
provider "brightbox" {
  version = "~> 1.0"
  username = "${var.user_email_address}"
  password = "${var.user_secret_password}"
  account = "${var.account_to_work_on}"
}

# Create a web server
resource "brightbox_server" "web" {
  # ...
}

» Authentication

The Brightbox provider offers a flexible means of providing credentials for authentication. The following methods are supported, in this order, and explained below:

• Username credentials
• Static credentials
• Username Environment variables
• Static Environment variables

» Username credentials

Username credentials can be provided by adding a username and password in-line in the Brightbox provider block:

Usage:

provider "brightbox" {
  version = "~> 1.0"
  username = "someone@example.com"
  password = "secretpassword"
}

This will operate on the default account for the user. If you are the collaborator on more than one account, you can select a different account by adding an account argument.

provider "brightbox" {
  version = "~> 1.0"
  username = "someone@example.com"
  password = "secretpassword"
  account  = "acc-diffr"
}

» Static credentials

Static credentials can be provided by adding an apiclient and apisecret in-line in the Brightbox provider block:

Usage:

provider "brightbox" {
  version = "~> 1.0"
  apiclient = "cli-testy"
  apisecret = "secretcode"
}

API clients will only work on the account they are generated for.

» Username Environment variables

You can provide your username and password via the BRIGHTBOX_USER_NAME and BRIGHTBOX_PASSWORD environment variables. If required you can provide a non-default account with the BRIGHTBOX_ACCOUNT variable.

provider "brightbox" {
  version = "~> 1.0"
}

Usage:

$ export BRIGHTBOX_USER_NAME="someone@example.com"
$ export BRIGHTBOX_PASSWORD="secretpassword"
$ export BRIGHTBOX_ACCOUNT="acc-diffr"
$ terraform plan

» Static Environment variables

You can provide your api client id and secret via the BRIGHTBOX_CLIENT and BRIGHTBOX_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables. This will operate on the account that issued the client id.

provider "brightbox" {
  version = "~> 1.0"
}

Usage:

$ export BRIGHTBOX_CLIENT="cli-testy"
$ export BRIGHTBOX_CLIENT_SECRET="secretcode"
$ terraform plan

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• apiclient - (optional) This is the Brightbox client id for an account. This can also be specified with the BRIGHTBOX_CLIENT shell environment variable.

• apisecret - (optional) This is the Brightbox client secret. This can also be specified with the BRIGHTBOX_CLIENT_SECRET shell environment variable.

• username - (optional) This is the Brightbox user logon. This can also be specified with the BRIGHTBOX_USER_NAME shell environment variable.

• password - (optional) This is the Brightbox user logon password. This can also be specified with the BRIGHTBOX_PASSWORD shell environment variable.

• account - (optional) This is the Brightbox account you wish to operate upon. This can also be specified with the BRIGHTBOX_ACCOUNT shell environment variable.

• apiurl - (Optional) Use this to override the default endpoint URL constructed for the region. It's typically used to connect to custom Brightbox endpoints.