How to establish a proper SSH connection

[yyy916]

I need help to create a VM with proper SSH connection so that the sshd is active when it starts. I keep missing out on the necessary Terraform config. Also, due to the fact that the template's setup is lost when run via Terraform, I can only add the authorized keys for ssh via sshkeys = <<EOF ....EOF . I see other variables like preprovision and ssh_host . I'm lost on which ones are not outdated. Can someone help me understand the other neccessities?

[TKinslayer]

I have the exact same problem, I would like to know how to provision a VM with a set of predefined private-key and public-key so that I can use its public-key to seed other VM with the value inside sshkeys = <<EOF ....EOF. None of the variables I found inside the documentation would work. I had to use Packer to bake in the key values inside a cloud-init template. It's not practical. Is there a way to do that with Terraform, instead?