topic Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest in Controllers

Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchestrator"

ahlgrenjm — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:37:39 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to prevent the message "This has been created from Orchestrator", and the "Terraform" icon from being displayed in ACI when configuring objects using Terraform? I have a scenario where I want to initially create most objects using Terraform but turn the deployment over to an end customer who will be using the UI to configure going forward.

Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest

tmagill@convergeone.com — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:58:38 GMT

Yes, you need to clear the annotation. TF sets it to "orchestrator:terraform" like:

{
"totalCount": "1",
"imdata": [{
"fvAp": {
"attributes": {
"annotation": "orchestrator:terraform",
"descr": "",
"dn": "uni/tn-L2_Transit/ap-SONOFI",
"name": "DEMO",
"nameAlias": "",
"ownerKey": "",
"ownerTag": "",
"prio": "unspecified",
"userdom": ":all:common:"
}
}
}
]
}

So once you delete that annotation, the icon and message go away. I have not tried just manually setting the annotation to Null in TF but that should work as well.

Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest

ahlgrenjm — Fri, 12 May 2023 19:11:54 GMT

Thanks. I'm new to TF but I don't see that annotation in my TF files. Is it added automatically by TF? I'll keep looking around as I may have missed it.

Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest

Marcel Zehnder — Sat, 13 May 2023 12:59:00 GMT

You can set the annotation as an argument in the resources (just set it to ""). Here is an example for the tenant resource:

resource "aci_tenant" "example" { name = "demo_tenant" description = "from terraform" annotation = "" }

Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest

ahlgrenjm — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:08:39 GMT

Thanks @Marcel Zehnder and tmagill@convergeone.com !

Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest

dino.dan — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:54:28 GMT

It doesn't work in my environment. Terraform v1.5.4, Provider aci v2.9.0 and Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Version: 5.2(4e)

Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest

Marcel Zehnder — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:29:34 GMT

Even if you provide an empty string as the annotation argument you see the icon? If yes, try to set the annotaion argument as "dummy" or some other string. Not sure if it works, but it's worth a try.

Re: Cisco ACI with Terraform: "This has been created from Orchest

dino.dan — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 12:49:09 GMT

I've set annotation argument as "dummy" and I don't see the icon but if you save the object in xml I see annotation="dummy". If I change iafter apply annotation="" and make terraform plan the messages is

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