How to manage a Savings Plan

To create a Savings Plan, you will need at least 5 elements:

• The ID of your Public Cloud project.
• The flavour concerned by your Savings Plan
• The duration of your Savings Plan (in standard ISO 8601 format)
• The number of resources concerned.
• The name of your Savings Plan

In our example, we are going to create a Savings Plan for 10 instances of type b3-8, for a duration of 1 month. Add the following lines to a file named savings_plan.tf :

# creation of a Savings Plan
resource "ovh_savings_plan" "Savings_plan_simple_b3_8" {
  service_name = "<public cloud project ID>"
  flavor = "b3-8" # instance type or rancher/rancher_standard or rancher_ovhcloud_edition
  period = "P1M" #  P mandatory, number for duration and M for ‘month’, Y for ‘year’ ...
  size = 10
  display_name = "Savings_plan_simple_b3_8"
  auto_renewal = true # optional, ‘true’ to activate.
}

You can create your Savings Plan by entering the following command in your console:

terraform apply

First find the id of your service in the list of your services, which can be obtained via the following endpoint:

You will obtain a list containing the id of your services as follows:

You can use this route to check whether the service corresponds to the Public Cloud project concerned:

You'll get a list containing the details of your service as follows. Check that it's the right project, using the vars.value field:

You can find the id of your Savings Plan in the list of your Savings Plans obtained via this endpoint:

You get a list of Savings Plan as follows:

Then look for the Savings Plan concerned in the list and copy its id.

Modify your resource in the savings_plan.tf Terraform file created earlier.