» rightscale_datacenter

Use this data source to locate and extract info about an existing datacenter to pass to other rightscale resources.

Filter block is optional - ommitting it will result in the first available datacenter in a given cloud.

» Example Usage 1: Basic configuration of a datacenter data source

 data "rightscale_datacenter" "ec2-us-east-1a" {
   cloud_href = "${data.rightscale_cloud.ec2_us_oregon.href}"
   filter {
     name = "us-east-1a"
   }
 }

output "datacenter name" {
  value = "${data.rightscale_datacenter.ec2-us-east-1a.name}"
}

output "datacenter href" {
  value = "${data.rightscale_datacenter.ec2-us-east-1a.href}"
}

data "rightscale_cloud" "ec2_us_oregon" {
  filter {
    name = "EC2 us-west-2"
    cloud_type = "amazon"
  }
}

» Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported:

• cloud_href (Required) - The Href of the cloud the datacenter belongs to

• filter (Optional) - The filter block supports:

  • name - The name of the datacenter
  • resource_uid - The resource_uid of the datacenter. If this filter option is set, additional retry logic will be enabled to wait up to 5 minutes for cloud resources to be polled and populated for use.

» Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

• name - The name of the datacenter

• description - The description of the datacenter

• resource_uid - The resource_uid of the datacenter as reported by the rightscale platform

• links - Hrefs of related API resources

• cloud_href - Href of the cloud the datacenter belongs to

• href - Href of the datacenter