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Provisioner Connections

Many provisioners require access to the remote resource. For example, a provisioner may need to use SSH or WinRM to connect to the resource.

Terraform uses a number of defaults when connecting to a resource, but these can be overridden using connection block in either a resource or provisioner. Any connection information provided in a resource will apply to all the provisioners, but it can be scoped to a single provisioner as well. One use case is to have an initial provisioner connect as root to setup user accounts, and have subsequent provisioners connect as a user with more limited permissions.

Example usage

# Copies the file as the root user using SSH
provisioner "file" {
    source = "conf/myapp.conf"
    destination = "/etc/myapp.conf"
    connection {
        user = "root"
        password = "${var.root_password}"
    }
}

# Copies the file as the Administrator user using WinRM
provisioner "file" {
    source = "conf/myapp.conf"
    destination = "C:/App/myapp.conf"
    connection {
        type = "winrm"
        user = "Administrator"
        password = "${var.admin_password}"
    }
}

Argument Reference

The following arguments are supported by all connection types:

• type - The connection type that should be used. Valid types are "ssh" and "winrm" This defaults to "ssh".

• user - The user that we should use for the connection. Defaults to "root" when using type "ssh" and defaults to "Administrator" when using type "winrm".

• password - The password we should use for the connection. In some cases this is provided by the provider.

• host - The address of the resource to connect to. This is provided by the provider.

• port - The port to connect to. Defaults to 22 when using type "ssh" and defaults to 5985 when using type "winrm".

• timeout - The timeout to wait for the connection to become available. This defaults to 5 minutes. Should be provided as a string like "30s" or "5m".

• script_path - The path used to copy scripts to meant for remote execution.

Additional arguments only supported by the "ssh" connection type:

• key_file - The SSH key to use for the connection. This takes preference over the password if provided.

• agent - Set to true to enable using ssh-agent to authenticate.

Additional arguments only supported by the "winrm" connection type:

• https - Set to true to connect using HTTPS instead of HTTP.

• insecure - Set to true to not validate the HTTPS certificate chain.

• cacert - The CA certificate to validate against.