How to set the Hostname on a Linux server with Terraform

2023-05-22

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If you need to set the hostname on a linux server, and you are using Terraform, then you can do the following:

Include the provisioner block and set it to remote-exec:

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provisioner "remote-exec" {
  inline = ["sudo hostnamectl set-hostname friendly.example.com"]
}