Follow the example but get error when I run example for Terraform with Ansible

Posted on January 10, 2022

By acdbrn1960

as i follow the example at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ansible-with-terraform-for-configuration-management

When I ran it terraform apply -var “do_token=${DO_PAT}” -var “pvt_key=/home/ubuntu/terraform-ansible/aws_rsa” -var “pub_key=~/.ssh/aws_rsa.pub”

I get an error

╷ │ Error: no ssh key found with name terraform │ │ with data.digitalocean_ssh_key.terraform, │ on provider.tf line 18, in data “digitalocean_ssh_key” “terraform”: │ 18: data “digitalocean_ssh_key” “terraform” { │ ╵

Not sure what I did wrong

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Bobby

January 13, 2022

Hi there,

It looks like the SSH key is missing. You need to follow the steps from the prerequisites first and mainly this tutorial here which describes the steps that you need to take to configure your SSH keys:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-terraform-with-digitalocean

Hope that this helps! Best, Bobby