Remote-exec error between VMware VMs: dial tcp :22: i/o timeout

Terraform
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I’m trying to call an ansible playbook via terrafrom remote-exec

I’m running into the following error

Error: remote-exec provisioner error
│
│   with null_resource.remote-exec-test,
│   on pb_rm.tf line 26, in resource "null_resource" "remote-exec-test":
│   26:   provisioner "remote-exec" {
│
│ timeout - last error: dial tcp 192.168.10.202:22: i/o timeout

My terraform and ansible VMs are on the same ESXi host and on the same vSwitch. Comms are fine, can ping each other etc… and I can ssh from terraform to ansible

user@terraform:~/config_deploy_del_rm_test$ ssh 192.168.10.202
user@192.168.10.202's password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-80-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Sat 07 Aug 2021 10:03:06 PM UTC

  System load:  0.0                Processes:               225
  Usage of /:   18.5% of 38.63GB   Users logged in:         1
  Memory usage: 5%                 IPv4 address for ens160: 192.168.10.202
  Swap usage:   0%


88 updates can be installed immediately.
1 of these updates is a security update.
To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable


Last login: Sat Aug  7 21:52:55 2021 from 192.168.10.211
user@ansible:~$

Files

pb_rm.tf

resource "null_resource" "remote-exec-test" {
  provisioner "remote-exec" {
    inline = [
        "ansible-playbook /home/user/config_deploy_del_rm_test/hw.yml",
        "echo Done!",
      ]
  }
    connection {
    type     = "ssh"
    user     = "user"
    password = "${var.password}"
    host     = "${var.host}"
  }
}

variables.tf

variable "password"{
    type = string
    default = "password"
}
variable "host"{
    type = string
    default = "192.168.10.202"
}