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local-exec: the OS doesn't need to be ready
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It is not obvious that the resource being created doesn't mean that the OS and system services such as sshd are ready (contrary to `remote-exec`). It is better to make that explicit and same developers like me some headache :-)
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holyjak authored and jen20 committed Sep 3, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ is created. This invokes a process on the machine running Terraform, not on
the resource. See the `remote-exec` [provisioner](/docs/provisioners/remote-exec.html)
to run commands on the resource.

Beware that even though the resource is fully created when the provisioner is run,
it doesn't need to have finished booting or starting system services.

## Example usage

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