Connection blocks for SSH in Terraform - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to specify the SSH user in the connection block.

Terraform

connection {
  type        = "ssh"
  user        = "[1]"
  private_key = file("~/.ssh/id_rsa")
  host        = self.public_ip
}

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Aubuntu

Badmin

Croot

Dec2-user

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'root' when the server disables root SSH login.

Using 'admin' which may not exist on the server.

The SSH user is typically set to ubuntu for Ubuntu cloud instances.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to specify the SSH private key file path in the connection block.

Terraform

connection {
  type        = "ssh"
  user        = "ubuntu"
  private_key = file("[1]")
  host        = self.public_ip
}

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A~/.ssh/id_dsa

B~/.ssh/authorized_keys

C~/.ssh/id_rsa

D~/.ssh/config

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the public key file instead of the private key.

Using SSH config file instead of key file.

The private key file is usually ~/.ssh/id_rsa for SSH authentication.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the connection block by completing the missing host attribute.

Terraform

connection {
  type        = "ssh"
  user        = "ubuntu"
  private_key = file("~/.ssh/id_rsa")
  host        = [1]
}

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Aself.public_ip

Bself.private_ip

Cvar.host_ip

Dlocalhost

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using private IP when connecting from outside the network.

Using localhost which refers to the local machine.

The host should be the public IP of the instance, accessed as self.public_ip.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to complete the connection block with SSH type and user.

Terraform

connection {
  type = "[1]"
  user = "[2]"
  private_key = file("~/.ssh/id_rsa")
  host = self.public_ip
}

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Assh

Bwinrm

Cubuntu

Dec2-user

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'winrm' which is for Windows remote management.

Using 'ec2-user' on non-Amazon Linux instances.

The connection type is ssh and the user is ubuntu for typical Linux instances.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to complete the connection block with SSH type, user, and private key file.

Terraform

connection {
  type        = "[1]"
  user        = "[2]"
  private_key = file("[3]")
  host        = self.public_ip
}

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Assh

Bubuntu

C~/.ssh/id_rsa

D~/.ssh/id_dsa

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'winrm' instead of 'ssh'.

Using the wrong private key file path.

The connection block uses ssh as type, ubuntu as user, and ~/.ssh/id_rsa as the private key file.