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uday kiran
Asked: 2021-12-05 10:56:27 +0800 CST

How to retrieve private key information when we are creating azure vm from terraform?

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I have created a linux centos machine on azure cloud using terraform.

I tried to see the content of private key so I can connect later using output variable.

But, I got error as I need to set it as sensitive and I did the same and the outputs is shown as below.

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Outputs:

tls_private_key = <sensitive>

How to get the private key content then? My terraform files link

It seems I can retrieve that from state file but it has all the lines kept with \n and I need to manually replace all of them one by one with new line from editor like vscode.

Any other suugestions?

centos terraform azure

1 Answers

  1. refer ：https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/terraform/create-linux-virtual-machine-with-infrastructure

    1. terraform output -raw tls_private_key > id_rsa
    2. terraform output public_ip_address
    3. ssh -i id_rsa azureuser@<public_ip_address>
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