triton provider key_material does not accept a file as the docs say

[jhorwit2]

Version: current stable

As you can see in this PR key_file was changed in favor of key_material; however, it was does not work with a file. The private key value is passed to create a new auth object here, but since it's a file name it breaks.

[phinze]

Hi @jhorwit2 - the file() interpolation function is the intended way to lift file contents into config. Will get the docs fixed up on this!

Should be:

provider "triton" {
  account      = "AccountName"
  key_material = "${file("~/.ssh/id_rsa")}"
  key_id       = "25:d4:a9:fe:ef:e6:c0:bf:b4:4b:4b:d4:a8:8f:01:0f"
  # ...
}

(edit: actually made the change to the pasted config 😝 )

[jhorwit2]

@phinze just submitted a PR #6255 for the documentation a few lines down that still references the key path.

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