ESXi Native: Installation & Configuration

Installation

The Pulumi ESXi Native provider is available as a package in all Pulumi languages:

• JavaScript/TypeScript: @pulumiverse/esxi-native
• Python: pulumiverse_esxi_native
• Go: github.com/pulumiverse/pulumi-esxi-native/sdk/go/esxi
• .NET: Pulumiverse.EsxiNative

Provider Binary

The ESXi Native provider binary is a third party binary. It can be installed using the pulumi plugin command.

pulumi plugin install resource esxi-native <version> --server github://api.github.com/pulumiverse

Replace the <version> string with your desired version.

Configuration

In order to use the provider, we need to provide SSH credentials to the ESXi Host

Set configuration using pulumi config

Remember to pass --secret when setting password so that it is properly encrypted:

```bash
$ pulumi config set esxi-native:username <username>
$ pulumi config set esxi-native:password <password> --secret
$ pulumi config set esxi-native:host <host IP or FQDN>
```

Set configuration using environment variables

$ export ESXI_USERNAME=<YOUR_ESXI_USERNAME>
$ export ESXI_PASSWORD=<YOUR_ESXI_PASSWORD>
$ export ESXI_HOST=<YOUR_ESXI_HOST_IP>

$ export ESXI_USERNAME=<YOUR_ESXI_USERNAME>
$ export ESXI_PASSWORD=<YOUR_ESXI_PASSWORD>
$ export ESXI_HOST=<YOUR_ESXI_HOST_IP>

> $env:ESXI_USERNAME = "<YOUR_ESXI_USERNAME>"
> $env:ESXI_PASSWORD = "<YOUR_ESXI_PASSWORD>"
> $env:ESXI_HOST = "<YOUR_ESXI_HOST>"

Configuration options

Use pulumi config set esxi-native:<option> or pass options to the constructor of new esxi-native.Provider.

Note: Each config can also be sourced from the environment variables given below