Ubuntu server works.

appServer.tf

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+terraform {
+  required_providers {
+    aws = {
+      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
+      version = "~> 4.16"
+    }
+  }
+
+  required_version = ">= 1.2.0"
+}
+
+provider "aws" {
+  region  = "us-west-2"
+}
+
+resource "aws_instance" "app_server" {
+  ami           = var.ami_id
+  instance_type = "t2.micro"
+  key_name = var.ami_key_pair_name
+  security_groups = ["${aws_security_group.ingress-all-test.id}"]
+
+  # this is probably the only way to get the remote-execution (below) working. The elastic IP is not avaialable at this time
+  associate_public_ip_address = true
+
+  tags = {
+    "Name" = var.ami_name
+  }
+
+  subnet_id = "${aws_subnet.subnet-uno.id}"
+
+  connection {
+    type="ssh"
+    user="ubuntu"
+    host = self.public_ip
+    # we are assuming the ppk key is loaded into pageant...
+    agent = true
+  }
+
+  # Upload the set up script
+  provisioner "file" {
+    source      = "setupAppServer.sh"
+    destination = "/tmp/setupAppServer.sh"
+  }
+
+  # Uplaod docker image
+  provisioner "file" {
+    source      = "dumbserver.image.tar"
+    destination = "/tmp/dumbserver.image.tar"
+  }
+
+  provisioner "remote-exec" {
+    inline = [
+      "chmod +x /tmp/setupAppServer.sh",
+      "sudo /tmp/setupAppServer.sh"
+    ]
+    
+  }  
+
+}