SSH connection to Azure VM with Terraform

Question

I have successfully created a VM as part of a Resource Group on Azure using Terraform. Next step is to ssh in the new machine and run a few commands. For that, I have created a provisioner as part of the VM resource and set up an SSH connection:

resource "azurerm_virtual_machine" "helloterraformvm" {
    name = "terraformvm"
    location = "West US"
    resource_group_name = "${azurerm_resource_group.helloterraform.name}"
    network_interface_ids = ["${azurerm_network_interface.helloterraformnic.id}"]
    vm_size = "Standard_A0"

    storage_image_reference {
        publisher = "Canonical"
        offer = "UbuntuServer"
        sku = "14.04.2-LTS"
        version = "latest"
    }


    os_profile {
        computer_name = "hostname"
        user     = "some_user"
        password = "some_password"
    }

    os_profile_linux_config {
        disable_password_authentication = false
    }

    provisioner "remote-exec" {
        inline = [
          "sudo apt-get install docker.io -y"
        ]
        connection {
          type     = "ssh"
          user     = "some_user"
          password = "some_password"
        }
    }

}

If I run "terraform apply", it seems to get into an infinite loop trying to ssh unsuccessfully, repeating this log over and over:

azurerm_virtual_machine.helloterraformvm (remote-exec): Connecting to remote host via SSH...
azurerm_virtual_machine.helloterraformvm (remote-exec):   Host:
azurerm_virtual_machine.helloterraformvm (remote-exec):   User: testadmin
azurerm_virtual_machine.helloterraformvm (remote-exec):   Password: true
azurerm_virtual_machine.helloterraformvm (remote-exec):   Private key: false
azurerm_virtual_machine.helloterraformvm (remote-exec):   SSH Agent: true

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what it is :(

EDIT:

I have tried setting up this machine without the provisioner, and I can SSH to it no problems with the given username/passwd. However I need to look up the host name in the Azure portal because I don't know how to retrieve it from Terraform. It's suspicious that the "Host:" line in the log is empty, so I wonder if it has anything to do with that?

UPDATE:

I've tried with different things like indicating the host name in the connection with

host = "${azurerm_public_ip.helloterraformip.id}"

and

host = "${azurerm_public_ip.helloterraformips.ip_address}"

as indicated in the docs, but with no success.

I've also tried using ssh-keys instead of password, but same result - infinite loop of connection tries, with no clear error message as of why it's not connecting.

SSH connection to Azure VM with Terraform

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