Templates (Infrastructure)

overview infrastructure templates are terraform centric beyond the realm of kubernetes, the infrastructure templates expand deep into the broader architecture of infrastructure management and provisioning these templates, specifically tailored for terraform, act as scripts or blueprints for defining and provisioning your infrastructure resources they cater to tasks like provisioning virtual machines, setting up networks, orchestrating storage solutions, and more with terraform's declarative language and infrastructure as code (iac) capabilities, these templates ensure that infrastructure is consistently and reliably provisioned, managed, and scaled how to create an infrastructure template? step1 access the templates menu start by navigating to the environments section, under infrastructure step2 initiate template creation once inside the templates menu, locate and click on the "create template" button step3 template creation page you will now be taken to the template creation page, a dedicated space where you can specify various details for your new infrastructure template argument description name provide a descriptive and unique name for your template description offer a brief summary or explanation about the template's purpose or characteristics owner specify the owner responsible entity for this template configuration archive this option allows you to load a custom configuration click on the provided space or button to upload your custom configuration ensure that the configuration file is in the acceptable formats—either a gzip or tar archive cofiguration text allows for manual input of arguments tags add a custom tag to reference your template environment action this argument allows adding business logic for the environments lifecycle, and can be defined through > terminate this is when the environment is terminated when the default timeand grace time reaches 0 seconds > manual manual trigger default time the default expiration time when the action is triggered grace time the grace time to wait after the default time for the environment action to be triggered input variables variables are used to generate random data you can use them in the values field of the extra arguments section you can combine them with other values for example, {{set string}} test the result will be a random string followed by the word test you can also use them in a payload from a value of extra arguments, combined with other values or predefined variables the following predefined variable categories are available > infra > user > functionadditional parameters can also be added, the platform supporting various formats such as string, numeric, json, code, list or boolean step 4 finalize creation after filling out all the relevant information, review your entries for accuracy once satisfied, click on the create button to finalize the creation of your infrastructure template