From d31656af9138b39b2c0eaae480c9b694f5cc9bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Nugent Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 15:22:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Clarify note on local provisioners --- website/source/docs/provisioners/local-exec.html.markdown | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/provisioners/local-exec.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/provisioners/local-exec.html.markdown index c700936b30..5ec849790e 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/provisioners/local-exec.html.markdown +++ b/website/source/docs/provisioners/local-exec.html.markdown @@ -13,8 +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. +Note that even though the resource will be ifully created when the provisioner is run, +there is no guarantee that it will be in an operable state - for example system services +such as `sshd` may not be started yet on compute resources. ## Example usage