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Hi, I am new to Pulumi, and getting up to speed using Python.
I want to:
Create a droplet on digitalocean.
Copy some scripts over to the new droplet.
Execute the scripts.
After initially creating the droplet, the first copy and/or command fails.

It runs fine the second time after the droplet exists.
I have tried:
Adding waiting
custom timeouts
dependencies
A check-ready command

What should I try next?

So, I am going to reply to myself as I have solved it. I believe that the user_data script was not fully executing before the remote copy and commands were run. I was surprised to find this, the script was only creating a few directories, which I thought would be eyeblink in time. Anyway, by moving the critical mkdirs to a remote command, it all works just fine.