You can download the latest version of OpenTofu for ppc64le here. A pull request for a documentation update has now merged. View the official OpenTofu documentation here.
Thank you very much Chongshi Zhang for using OpenTofu to deploy OpenShift!
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Using OpenTofu to Deploy OpenShift for ppc64le
Written by Chongshi Zhang and edited by Mick Tarsel
OpenTofu is supported on Power and can be used to deploy OpenShift on Power Systems.
Please note that OpenTofu uses a different root directory for providers: registry.opentofu.org.
Here are the steps to do it:
Download OpenTofu
The executable of OpenTofu for Power can be download from this site and store it under /usr/local/bin:
wget https://ftp2.osuosl.org/pub/ppc64el/opentofu/opentofu-1.6.1
cp opentofu-1.6.1 /usr/local/bin/opentofu
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/opentofu
Download the providers for OpenTofu
The providers built for Power are used to deploy OpenShift. These providers can be found in this Github repo. Store the providers at /usr/local/tf-providers
mkdir -p /usr/local/tf-providers
cd /usr/local/tf-providers
wget https://github.com/ocp-power-automation/terraform-providers-power/releases/download/v0.19/archive.zip
unzip -o archive.zip
mv registry.terraform.io registry.opentofu.org
Download the playbook to deploy Openshift for PowerVC
The playbook to deploy OpenShift for PowerVC uses Terraform providers to create infrastructure required to deploy OpenShift in the PowerVC environment. It can be found here.
wget https://github.com/ocp-power-automation/ocp4-upi-powervm/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
unzip -o mail.zip
cd ocp4-upi-powervm-main
cp var.tfvars myvar.tfvars
Open myvar.tfvars to modify it based on your PowerVC environment.
Deploy OpenShift with OpenTofu
There are two steps to run OpenTofu: Initialize the OpenTofu environment and then apply the changes.
opentofu init -plugin-dir /usr/local/tf-providers
opentofu apply -var-file=myvar.tfvars
Or we can run plan to test the playbook first, if no error then we can run apply:
opentofu plan -var-file=myvar.tfvars
That’s it!