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Fastly Provider

The Fastly provider is used to interact with the content delivery network (CDN) provided by Fastly.

In order to use this Provider, you must have an active account with Fastly. Pricing and signup information can be found at https://www.fastly.com/signup

Use the navigation to the left to read about the available resources.

Example Usage

# Configure the Fastly Provider
provider "fastly" {
  api_key = "test"
}

# Create a Service  
resource "fastly_service_v1" "myservice" {
  name = "myawesometestservice"
  ...
}

Authentication

The Fastly provider offers an API key based method of providing credentials for authentication. The following methods are supported, in this order, and explained below:

  • Static API key
  • Environment variables

Static API Key

Static credentials can be provided by adding a api_key in-line in the fastly provider block:

Usage:

provider "fastly" {
  api_key = "test"
}

The API key for an account can be found on the Account page: https://app.fastly.com/#account

###Environment variables

You can provide your API key via FASTLY_API_KEY environment variable, representing your Fastly API key.

provider "fastly" {}

Usage:

$ export FASTLY_API_KEY="afastlyapikey"
$ terraform plan

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported in the provider block:

  • api_key - (Optional) This is the API key. It must be provided, but it can also be sourced from the FASTLY_API_KEY environment variable