How to connect to server via SSH and use remote-exec provisioner.

terraform-ssh-remote-exec.tf

resource "digitalocean_droplet" "web" {
  image = "ubuntu-16-04-x64"
  name = "web-1"
  region = "sgp1"
  size = "512mb"
  ssh_keys = [12345]

  connection {
    type = "ssh"
    user = "root"
    private_key = "${file("~/.ssh/id_rsa")}"
  }

  provisioner "remote-exec" {
    inline = [
    ]
  }
}

@mkempster I have the same issue with you. And part of the solution was to open ssh traffic to all the internet. A not very secure aware move as you also wrote. Have you found any other alternative to that?

2 years late to the party,

Following up on mkempster's code:

data "http" "icanhazip" {
  url = "https://icanhazip.com/"

  request_headers = {
    Accept = "text/*"
  }
}

# The IP Address of my laptop. Pass it to the Security Group ingress-rule, to restict SSH Access to the Instance
variable "my_ip" {
	type = string
	default = chomp(data.http.icanhazip.response_body)
}

resource "aws_security_group" "port_22_ingress_globally_accessible" {
    name = "port_22_ingress_globally_accessible"

    ingress { 
        from_port = 22    
        to_port = 22
        protocol = "tcp"
        cidr_blocks = [var.my_ip] // IP of my own laptop
    }
}