terraform-provider-vsphere winrm config reset upon clone customization

Question

Environment

• Vsphere 6
• VM OS = Win Server 2016
• terraform version = 0.11.7
• terraform-provider-vsphere version = 1.4.1

Issue / Question

I've noticed that using the customization block will reset the winrm config I had preconfigured on the template. I've attempted to work around this by configuring winrm on the fly with run_once_command_list , but that seems to operate as fire-and-forget...the provisioner is triggered prior to the command list execution (completion).

Any ideas?

Specific details can be found here -> terraform-provider-vsphere github issue

Answer 1

For windows 10 you can install the built-in OpenSSH server to transfer a file or use SSH.

provisioner "file" {
    source      = "BuildAgent1/buildAgent.properties"
    destination = "f:\\BuildAgent\\conf\\buildAgent.properties"
    connection {
      type     = "ssh"
      user     = "user"
      password = "password"
      timeout = "30m"
    }
  }