ZeroTier lets you connect machines, containers, and programs to encrypted virtual LANs over the Internet. ZeroTier provides NAT traversal, flow control rules, multipath, and more, without the hassle of having to manage TLS keys. It supports IPv4, IPv6, as well as any other protocol that runs on Ethernet, such as mDNS, FCoE, SCCP, IPX, BGP or OSPF.

• ZeroTier Networks can be thought of as virtual Ethernet switches that run on the Internet. These switches can provision IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from pools. Networks IDs look like abcdef1234567890.
• Nodes are clients, usually running the ZeroTier Client. Nodes "plug themselves in" to these switches with they attempt to join the network. Nodes have Identities, which are shorter, and look something like abcdef1234.
• Members are associations between Networks and Nodes, representing the switch administrator authorizing the node to be on the network. IP addresses can optionally be configured on a per-membership basis, instead of being assigned from a pool.
• Node Controllers manage Flow Control Rules, Assignment Pools, Networks, and Memberships. ZeroTier Central is our SaaS offering, which is driven by the ZeroTier Terraform Provider.

Before we begin, we will need to log into my.zerotier.com and create an API token under the Account section.

This token will need to exported as the ZEROTIER_CENTRAL_TOKEN variable in your shell or Terraform workspace, if using Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise.

Finally, we're able to write create some Zerotier Networks with Terraform. Create a directory and place a main.tf inside of it.

$ mkdir -p examples/single-network && cd examples/single-network
$ emacs main.tf

Add the following to your main.tf

module "network" {
  source      = "zerotier/network/zerotier"
  version     = "1.0.0"
  name        = "hello_zerotier"
  description = "Hello ZeroTier!"
  subnets     = ["10.9.8.0/24"]
  flow_rules  = "accept;"
}

Next, run initialize and plan your Terraform run with terraform init && terraform plan. You should see something like this:

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # module.this["hello_zerotier"].zerotier_network.this will be created
  + resource "zerotier_network" "this" {
      + assign_ipv4      = {
          + "zerotier" = true
        }
      + assign_ipv6      = {
          + "rfc4193"  = true
          + "sixplane" = false
          + "zerotier" = true
        }
      + creation_time    = (known after apply)
      + description      = "Hello Zerotier!"
      + enable_broadcast = true
      + flow_rules       = "accept;"
      + id               = (known after apply)
      + mtu              = 2800
      + multicast_limit  = 32
      + name             = "hello_zerotier"
      + private          = true
      + tf_last_updated  = (known after apply)

      + assignment_pool {
          + end   = "10.9.8.255"
          + start = "10.9.8.1"
        }

      + route {
          + target = "10.9.8.0/24"
        }
    }

Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

Finally, run the terraform apply. You will see terraform creating the network.

Do you want to perform these actions?
  Terraform will perform the actions described above.
  Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

  Enter a value: yes

module.this["hello_zerotier"].zerotier_network.this: Creating...
module.this["hello_zerotier"].zerotier_network.this: Creation complete after 1s [id=8bd5124fd644aa82]

Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.

Check that it was created in the ZeroTier Central Webui

Congratulations! You have now created your first ZeroTier Network using Infrastructure As Code with Terraform.

Alice can now join our network from her laptop. However, until we authorize her to be on the network, she will not have access.

Alternatively she could do so from her CLI.

$ zerotier-cli join 8286ac0e475d8abe

Alice can be authorized by creating a Membership objectin the API. Her laptop will be Auto-Assigned an IP by ZeroTier in the range 10.9.8.*.

module "member" {
  source      = "zerotier/member/zerotier"
  version     = "0.1.0"
  name        = "alice"
  description = "alice's laptop"
  member_id   = "ABCDEF1234"
  network_id  = module.network.id
}