Azure provider: Resource to upload ssh keys or certificates to azure

[keymon]

When creating an azure instance in terraform we can pass either a password or a SSH thumbprint.

This SSH thumbprint comes from a SSH key uploaded to the same azure_hosted_service defined in the instance, and uploaded using a method like this.

But terraform does not provide any way to upload the ssh key. Could be nice if terraform provides a resource to generate and upload the certificate and query the SSH thumbprint.

In our project we implemented this feature in a script like in this commit, which you can use as reference.

[aznashwan]

@keymon: again; there was no way to add a key to instance through the ASM API directly back when it was written. What actually happens here is that the thumbprint you provide is added to the azure_hosted_service containing the instance (that was simply how the ASM API works...).

The upcoming ARM implementation makes managing keys per instance much more easy.
Updates and/or further suggestions here: #3212

[chan-alex]

The problem is ARM is nice but for some ASM will have to be supported for years to come. Years. Not days, not weeks, not months. Years.

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