terraform GCP remote exec

main.tf

/*
This is a test server definition for GCE+Terraform for GH-9564
*/

provider "google" {
  project = "${var.project}" // Your project ID here.
  region  = "${var.region}"
}

resource "google_compute_firewall" "gh-9564-firewall-externalssh" {
  name    = "gh-9564-firewall-externalssh"
  network = "default"

  allow {
    protocol = "tcp"
    ports    = ["22"]
  }

  source_ranges = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  target_tags   = ["externalssh"]
}

resource "google_compute_instance" "dev1" {
  name         = "gcp-rhel7-dev1-tf"
  machine_type = "f1-micro"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"
  tags         = ["externalssh"]

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "centos-cloud/centos-7"
    }
  }

  network_interface {
    network = "default"

    access_config {
      # Ephemeral
    }
  }

  provisioner "remote-exec" {
    connection {
      type        = "ssh"
      user        = "${var.user}"
      timeout     = "500s"
      private_key = "${file("~/.ssh/google_compute_engine")}"
    }

    inline = [
      "touch /tmp/temp.txt",
    ]
  }

  # Ensure firewall rule is provisioned before server, so that SSH doesn't fail.
  depends_on = ["google_compute_firewall.gh-9564-firewall-externalssh"]

  service_account {
    scopes = ["compute-ro"]
  }

  metadata {
    ssh-keys = "USERNAME:${file("~/.ssh/google_compute_engine.pub")}"
  }
}

Thank you for figuring out the SSH part of how to make remote-exec work!

I believe that connection requires a host field since Terraform 0.12

Error: Missing required argument

  on monitoring.tf line 166, in resource "google_compute_instance" "monitoring":
 166:     connection {

The argument "host" is required, but no definition was found.

this should work:

  connection {
    type        = "ssh"
    host        = self.network_interface[0].access_config[0].nat_ip

also, I believe the SSH key needs to not have a passphrase:

google_compute_instance.monitoring: Creating...
google_compute_instance.monitoring: Still creating... [10s elapsed]
google_compute_instance.monitoring: Provisioning with 'remote-exec'...


Error: Failed to parse ssh private key: ssh: cannot decode encrypted private keys

@mattnworb I'm trying the same thing with no passphrase but I get key mismatch error even though I'm using a valid key pair.
How syntax do I use for remote-exec provisioner in terraform v0.12 ?

I used below one..

provisioner "file" {
source = "scripts/bootstrap.sh"
destination = "/tmp/bootstrap.sh"
}
provisioner "remote-exec" {
inline = [
"chmod +x /tmp/bootstrap.sh",
"sudo sed -i -e 's/\r$//' /tmp/bootstrap.sh", # Remove the spurious CR characters.
"sudo /tmp/bootstrap.sh",
]
}
connection {
type = "ssh"
host = "${google_compute_instance.vm_instance.network_interface.0.access_config.0.nat_ip}"
user = var.username
private_key = file(var.private_key_path)
}

how to fetch private key path