---
layout: "profitbricks"
page_title: "ProfitBricks: profitbricks_server"
sidebar_current: "docs-profitbricks-resource-profitbricks_server"
description: |-
  Creates and manages ProfitBricks Server objects.
---

# profitbricks\_server

Manages a Servers on ProfitBricks

## Example Usage

This resource will create an operational server. After this section completes, the provisioner can be called.

```
resource "profitbricks_server" "example" {
     name = "server"
     datacenter_id = "${profitbricks_datacenter.example.id}"
     cores = 1
     ram = 1024
     availability_zone = "ZONE_1"
     cpu_family = "AMD_OPTERON"
     volume {
       name = "new"
       image_name = "${var.ubuntu}"
       size = 5
       disk_type = "SSD"
       ssh_key_path = "${var.private_key_path}"
       image_password = "test1234"
     }
     nic {
       lan = "${profitbricks_lan.example.id}"
       dhcp = true
       ip = "${profitbricks_ipblock.example.ip}"
       firewall_active = true
       firewall {
         protocol = "TCP"
         name = "SSH"
         port_range_start = 22
         port_range_end = 22
       }
     }
   }
```

##Argument reference

* `name` - (Required) [string] The name of the server.
* `datacenter_id` - (Required)[string] 
* `cores` - (Required)[integer] Number of server cores.
* `ram` - (Required)[integer] The amount of memory for the server in MB.
* `availability_zone` - (Optional)[string] The availability zone in which the server should exist.
* `licence_type` - (Optional)[string] Sets the OS type of the server.
* `cpuFamily` - (Optional)[string] Sets the CPU type. "AMD_OPTERON" or "INTEL_XEON". Defaults to "AMD_OPTERON".
* `volume` -  (Required) See Volume section.
* `nic` - (Required) See NIC section.
* `firewall` - (Optional) See Firewall Rule section.