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Hi, I just got finished watching Dexter Park's Terraform Demo video on Youtube. It looks like Terraform would be a really useful tool for managing a large organization's Merakis. Do you think it would still be useful for an MSP (Managed Service Provider) managing a large number of smaller clients? A few clients do have multiple sites, but many only have a single site. It'd be nice to be able to manage all of their configurations through Terraform, but not sure about how helpful automating clients with a single site would be. My theory would be though that for small clients I'd be able to push out two wireless networks (Corporate and guest), create 3 vlans (data, voip, and guest), and assign all the ports on the switch (sometimes switches) to be access ports with a native vlan of data and then a voice vlan, with a few ports left as trunks for the APs and firewalls.
So it would potentially save me many hours over time if I could push out this base config using Terraform when setting up new clients. Does this sound like a good use case for the Meraki Terraform Provider? I'm guessing I'd probably have to log into the dashboard and create the organization and import the licensing manually each time, but the rest of the config being automated would still help save time.
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Hi, I just got finished watching Dexter Park's Terraform Demo video on Youtube. It looks like Terraform would be a really useful tool for managing a large organization's Merakis. Do you think it would still be useful for an MSP (Managed Service Provider) managing a large number of smaller clients? A few clients do have multiple sites, but many only have a single site. It'd be nice to be able to manage all of their configurations through Terraform, but not sure about how helpful automating clients with a single site would be. My theory would be though that for small clients I'd be able to push out two wireless networks (Corporate and guest), create 3 vlans (data, voip, and guest), and assign all the ports on the switch (sometimes switches) to be access ports with a native vlan of data and then a voice vlan, with a few ports left as trunks for the APs and firewalls.
So it would potentially save me many hours over time if I could push out this base config using Terraform when setting up new clients. Does this sound like a good use case for the Meraki Terraform Provider? I'm guessing I'd probably have to log into the dashboard and create the organization and import the licensing manually each time, but the rest of the config being automated would still help save time.
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