NSX-T

This is a memo regarding NSX-T uplinks. I think this is the most confusing and difficult part to understand in NSX-T. This post is made of 3 sections, Diagram with a more visual approach, Component with remarks/comments on uplinks components and a Q&A section based on questions I was asking myself. You can find duplicate information but slightly rephrased in every section. I kept it that way as some time some form are easier to understand than other.

This post is to show an example of using CI/CD with Terraform Cloud and Github Actions in order to have a better NetDevOps approach by doing NSX-T Network Infrastructure as code (IaC). It’s almost a bingo, I think I have most of the buzz words of these last years :) I will describe the structure of the project, the project components, the project workflow and finish with how to test this project.

The post below shows how to create security policy groups for NSX-T with Terraform nested for_each loop and dynamic. The variables are made from one map of list. Each list represents one group composed of tags. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-terraform-0-12-preview-for-and-for-each variable "mapgroups" { type = map default = { NBO = ["NBO"] NBO-PROD = ["NBO","PROD"] } } resource "nsxt_policy_group" "nbogroups" { for_each = var.mapgroups display_name = each.key criteria { dynamic "condition" { for_each = each.