Provisioning Windows VM including File Provisioner for AWS using Terraform results in Timeout - windows

Question

I'm aware that there already exists several posts similar to this one - I've went through them and adapted my Terraform configuration file, but it makes no difference.
Therefore, I'd like to publish my configuration file and my use case: I'd like to provision a (Windows) Virtual Machine on AWS, using Terraform. It works without the File Provisioning part - including them, the provisioning results in a timeout.
This includes adaptations from previous posts:
SSH connection restriction
SSH isnt working in Windows with Terraform provisioner connection type
Usage of a Security group
Terraform File provisioner can't connect ec2 over ssh. timeout - last error: dial tcp 92.242.xxx.xx:22: i/o timeout
I also get a timeout when using "winrm" instead of "ssh".
I'd be happy if you could provide any hint for following config file:
terraform {
required_providers {
aws = {
source = "hashicorp/aws"
version = "~> 3.0"
}
}
}
# Configure the AWS Provider
provider "aws" {
access_key = "<my access key>"
secret_key = "<my secret key>"
region = "eu-central-1"
}
resource "aws_instance" "webserver" {
ami = "ami-07dfec7a6d529b77a"
instance_type = "t2.micro"
security_groups = [aws_security_group.sgwebserver.name]
key_name = aws_key_pair.pubkey.key_name
tags = {
"Name" = "WebServer-Win"
}
}
resource "null_resource" "deployBundle" {
connection {
type = "ssh"
user = "Administrator"
private_key = "${file("C:/Users/<my user name>/aws_keypair/aws_instance.pem")}"
host = aws_instance.webserver.public_ip
}
provisioner "file" {
source = "files/test.txt"
destination = "C:/test.txt"
}
depends_on = [ aws_instance.webserver ]
}
resource "aws_security_group" "sgwebserver" {
name = "sgwebserver"
description = "Allow ssh inbound traffic"
ingress {
from_port = 0
to_port = 6556
protocol = "tcp"
cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
}
egress {
from_port = 0
to_port = 0
protocol = "-1"
cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
}
tags = {
Name = "sgwebserver"
}
}
resource "aws_key_pair" "pubkey" {
key_name = "aws-cloud"
public_key = file("key/aws_instance.pub")
}
resource "aws_eip" "elasticip" {
instance = aws_instance.webserver.id
}
output "eip" {
value = aws_eip.elasticip.public_ip
}
module "vpc" {
source = "terraform-aws-modules/vpc/aws"
name = "my-vpc"
cidr = "10.0.0.0/16"
azs = ["eu-central-1a", "eu-central-1b", "eu-central-1c"]
private_subnets = ["10.0.1.0/24", "10.0.2.0/24", "10.0.3.0/24"]
public_subnets = ["10.0.101.0/24", "10.0.102.0/24", "10.0.103.0/24"]
enable_nat_gateway = true
enable_vpn_gateway = true
tags = {
Terraform = "true"
Environment = "dev"
}
}
Thanks a lot in advance!

Answer 1

Windows EC2 instances don't support SSH, they support RDP. You would have to install SSH server software on the instance before you could SSH into it.
I suggest doing something like placing the file in S3, and using a user data script to trigger the Windows EC2 instance to download the file on startup.