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IBM Cloud Kubernetes (IKS) on VPC

IKS cluster on VPC Gen2 with worker pools and COS-backed registry namespace.

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ibm-iks-clusterterraform v1.7

Verification

Plan-validated

Passed: module logic verified on a mocked plan - inputs, validation rules, conditional creation and outputs resolve (no real provider, no cloud).

Conformance

  • Static validation (fmt · validate · tflint)
  • No applicable security policies for this provider
  • Plan tests (mocked: validation rules · outputs)

Provenance

Functional

  • Live test pending (no cloud run yet)

Last verified 2026-06-28 · how we verify

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cosign · sha-256

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# 1. Our pinned public key - fetch once, trust out-of-band
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  ibm-iks-cluster-1.0.0.tar.gz
# → Verified OK

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Use it from the registry

terraform · opentofu
module "iks_cluster" {
  source  = "www.iac-bazaar.com/iac-bazaar/ibm-iks-cluster/ibmcloud"
  version = "1.0.0"
}

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Documentation

ibm-iks-cluster

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS) on VPC Gen2 — a managed Kubernetes cluster with a multizone default worker pool, optional additional worker pools, a COS-backed Container Registry namespace for private images, and an optional dedicated Cloud Object Storage instance. Works with Terraform and OpenTofu (>= 1.6), IBM Cloud provider >= 2.0, < 3.0.

Status: static-validated, live-test pending. This module ships under live-test quarantine — IKS provisioning takes ~20 minutes and requires a paid IBM Cloud account, so the real apply → verify → destroy gate runs once a cloud sandbox is available. The configuration is validated with tofu fmt, tofu validate, and tflint.

Secure defaults

  • Private-only Kubernetes API — disable_public_service_endpoint = true by default; the master is reachable only over the VPC private service endpoint.
  • Customer-managed secrets encryption — wire Key Protect / Hyper Protect Crypto Services through kms_config to encrypt the cluster's etcd secrets with your own root key; KMS traffic stays on the private endpoint by default.
  • Multizone by design — supply three zones for an HA control plane and worker spread; each zone places worker_count nodes.
  • Persistent storage preserved on destroy — force_delete_storage = false by default so block volumes survive an accidental destroy.
  • No hardcoded secrets — the IBM API key is supplied to the provider, never to the module.

Requirements

  • Terraform or OpenTofu >= 1.6
  • IBM-Cloud/ibm provider >= 2.0, < 3.0
  • An IBM Cloud paid account with VPC Infrastructure and Kubernetes Service access, and an API key supplied to the provider (ibmcloud_api_key).

License

Commercial — LicenseRef-IaCBazaar-Commercial. © IaC Bazaar. Original work (not derived from a third-party module).

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