Feature Overview (aka. Goal Summary)

As a result of Hashicorp's license change to BSL, Red Hat OpenShift needs to remove the use of Hashicorp's Terraform from the installer – specifically for IPI deployments which currently use Terraform for setting up the infrastructure.

To avoid an increased support overhead once the license changes at the end of the year, we want to provision vSphere infrastructure without the use of Terraform.

Requirements (aka. Acceptance Criteria):

• The vSphere IPI Installer no longer contains or uses Terraform.
• The new provider should aim to provide the same results and have parity with the existing vSphere Terraform provider. Specifically, _we should aim for feature parity against the install config and the cluster it creates to minimize impact on existing customers' UX.

Use Cases (Optional):

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Questions to Answer (Optional):

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Out of Scope

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Background

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Customer Considerations

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Documentation Considerations

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Interoperability Considerations

Which other projects, including ROSA/OSD/ARO, and versions in our portfolio does this feature impact? What interoperability test scenarios should be factored by the layered products? Initial completion during Refinement status.