how to make terraform wait before making connection

[Lian Jiang]

I am using winrm to remote-exec on aws windows instance:

 provisioner "remote-exec" {

    script = "PrepareWindows.cmd"

    connection {

      type = "winrm"

      user = "administrator"

      password = "${var.adminPassword}"

    }

  }

The script returns error: dial tcp 52.8.100.117:5985: operation timed out. I have confirmed that the password is correct.

I guess it is because the windows vm need long time to initialize and terraform need to wait before making the connection.

How to make terraform wait? Thanks for any clue.

[Lian Jiang]

Just saw timeout setting. I will play with it. Thanks.

[Lian Jiang]

Looks like for my dev box to connect to the windows instance in aws created by "terraform apply", terraform running on my dev box need to use winrm over https. However, the https cert is bound to the windows instance name which can only be created after this windows instance has been created. So there is no way to get the https cacert required by winrm provisioner when running "terraform apply". 

Can anybody help me understand how winrm work for my scenario (running scripts remotely on an aws windows instance from my dev box in my company network during "terraform apply")?

Thanks for any help.

[Sander van Harmelen]

Not much time to help today, but indeed WinRM and certs are a pain. No change to use AMI's that have WinRM configured to accept plain HTTP connections? That would be the easies and fastest way forward I guess.

Sander

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