diff --git a/terraform/triton/main.tf.tpl b/terraform/triton/main.tf.tpl
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+terraform {
+  required_providers {
+    triton = {
+      source = "joyent/triton"
+      version = "0.8.2"
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+provider "triton" {
+    account = "username"
+    key_id  = "key:id"
+    url = "https://eu-ro-1.api.spearhead.cloud"
+    key_material = "/path/to/id_rsa"
+    insecure_skip_tls_verify = false
+}
+
+resource "triton_machine" "internal_resource_name" {
+  count   = var.instance_count
+  name    = "linux-${count.index + 1}"
+  package = "standard-2cpu-4ram-100disk"
+  image   = "b70d5484-5168-4ecb-8127-0a0c59c1d906"
+
+  provisioner "file" {
+    source = "scripts/setup.sh"
+    destination = "/var/tmp/setup.sh"
+  }
+
+  provisioner "remote-exec" {
+    inline = [
+      "bash /var/tmp/setup.sh",
+    ]
+  }
+
+  connection {
+    type = "ssh"
+    host = self.primaryip
+    user = "ubuntu"
+  }
+
+  cns {
+	services = ["${var.service_name}"]
+  }
+
+}
+
diff --git a/terraform/triton/scripts/setup.sh b/terraform/triton/scripts/setup.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/bash
+
+# add things youd like to do after provisioning here
+
+# my_ip=`ip addr show net0 | grep -Po 'inet \K[\d.]+'`
+# user_password=`openssl rand -base64 16`
+# user="linux"
+# sudo useradd -m -s /bin/bash -G sudo linux
+# echo "linux:${user_password}" | sudo chpasswd
+
+# sudo sed -i 's/\PasswordAuthentication no/PasswordAuthentication yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+# sudo sed -i 's/\ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes/ChallengeResponseAuthentication no/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+# sudo systemctl reload sshd
+
+# echo "Linux password: ${user_password}" >> /var/tmp/.setup
+# echo "IP: ${my_ip}" >> /var/tmp/.setup
+# cat /var/tmp/.setup
+
diff --git a/terraform/triton/variables.tf.tpl b/terraform/triton/variables.tf.tpl
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+variable "instance_count" {
+	description = "Number of triton instances to create"
+   	type = number
+    default = 8
+}
+
+variable "service_name" {
+	type        = string
+  	description = "The name of the service in CNS."
+  	default     = "somename"
+}