Mac OS Terraform issue with private keys

[vishal-biyani]

There is an issue with Terraform reading private keys on Mac OS - which causes the instance creation to fail.

module.yugabyte-db-cluster.google_compute_instance.yugabyte_node[2]: Provisioning with 'file'...
module.yugabyte-db-cluster.google_compute_instance.yugabyte_node[1]: Provisioning with 'file'...
module.yugabyte-db-cluster.google_compute_instance.yugabyte_node[0]: Provisioning with 'file'...

Error: Error applying plan:

3 errors occurred:
	* module.yugabyte-db-cluster.google_compute_instance.yugabyte_node[1]: Failed to parse key file "
<PRIVATE KEY CONTENT HERE>
": ssh: cannot decode encrypted private keys

There is a related issue open without any update: hashicorp/terraform#18927

Airflow has a similar issue but I am not clear/confident on the solution: PowerDataHub/terraform-aws-airflow#9

[KimRomBot]

I am having the same problem, though my SSH secret key is in a Bitbucket secure variable that is echoed into Terraform's dir on a step in the pipeline (encoded and decoded base64).

My configuration:

  provisioner "file" {
    source      = "../source/myVolume"
    destination = "/tmp"
    connection {
        type = "ssh"
        user = "terraform"
        private_key = file("${path.root}/ssh-key")
        host = google_compute_instance.default.network_interface.0.access_config.0.nat_ip 
    }
  }

EDIT:

Nevermind. My open SSH private key was made from a .ppk (putty) file that originally had a password on it. Made a new eky with no password and it worked. Had misremembered that it had one!