diff --git a/resources/terraform/do/README.md b/resources/terraform/do/README.md
index 338babb5..ce429ff0 100644
--- a/resources/terraform/do/README.md
+++ b/resources/terraform/do/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 3. Obtain a Digital Ocean API key and store the key as an environment variable
 
 ```
-
+export DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN=...
 ```
 
 4. Copy terraform.tfvars.sample to terraform.tfvars
@@ -28,17 +28,17 @@ All of the variables and any default values can be found in variables.tf.
 
 6. Create a new instance of dSIPRouter
 
-The following command will create a new instance of dSIPRouter based on the master branch.  The OS image will be Debian 11 and the dsiprouter_prefix will be overriden by demo.
+The following command will create a new instance of dSIPRouter based on the master branch.  The OS image will be Debian 12 and the dsiprouter_prefix will be overriden by demo.
 
 
 ```
-terraform apply -var branch=master -var dsiprouter_prefix=demo -var image=debian-11-x64
+terraform apply -var dsip_ver=master -var dsiprouter_prefix=demo -var image=debian-12-x64
 ```
 
 If you want to create a demo instance of dSIPRouter in your Digitalocean environment with a DNS record use this.  Note, you will need to change the dns_demo_domain variable to a domain that you have hosted with DigitalOcean.
 
 ```
-terraform apply -var branch=master -var image=debian-11-x64 -var dsiprouter_prefix=demo -var additional_commands='dsiprouter setcredentials -dc admin:ZmIwMTdmY2I5NjE4' -var dns_demo_enabled=1 -var dns_demo_domain=dsiprouter.org -var dns_demo_hostname=demo
+terraform apply -var dsip_ver=master -var image=debian-12-x64 -var dsiprouter_prefix=demo -var additional_commands='dsiprouter setcredentials -dc admin:ZmIwMTdmY2I5NjE4' -var dns_demo_enabled=1 -var dns_demo_domain=dsiprouter.org -var dns_demo_hostname=demo
 ```
 
 7. Destroy your instance if you are done with it by using the terraform destory command
diff --git a/resources/terraform/do/install.tftpl b/resources/terraform/do/install.tftpl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef2d7373
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/terraform/do/install.tftpl
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# adapted from build_instance.sh in the github repo
+#
+
+function cmdExists() {
+    if command -v "$1" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+        return 0
+    else
+        return 1
+    fi
+}
+
+# wait for any other programs using package manager to complete
+if cmdExists "apt-get"; then
+    while fuser /var/lib/apt/lists/lock >/dev/null 2>&1; do
+        sleep 1
+    done
+
+    # make package manager quieter
+    export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"
+    export DEBIAN_PRIORITY="critical"
+
+    apt-get update -qq -y >/dev/null
+    apt-get install -qq -y git perl >/dev/null
+
+    # TODO: move to installScriptRequirements()
+    # make sure english UTF-8 locale is installed
+    if ! locale -a 2>/dev/null | grep -q 'en_US.UTF-8'; then
+          perl -i -pe 's%# (en_US\.UTF-8 UTF-8)%\1%' /etc/locale.gen
+          locale-gen
+    fi
+elif cmdExists "yum"; then
+    while [ -f /var/run/yum.pid ]; do
+        sleep 1
+    done
+
+    yum makecache -y -q -e 0 >/dev/null
+    yum install -y -q -e 0 git >/dev/null
+fi
+
+# clone and install
+git clone --depth 1 -c advice.detachedHead=false ${dsip_repo} -b ${dsip_ver} ${dsip_dir} || exit 1
+${dsip_dir}/dsiprouter.sh ${build_options} | tee /var/log/dsip-install.log
+# note the "$${}" escaping of template interpolation
+(( $${PIPESTATUS[0]} == 0 )) || exit 1
+# additional commands to setup this box
+${additional_commands} || exit 1
+exit 0
diff --git a/resources/terraform/do/main.tf b/resources/terraform/do/main.tf
index 0faf46a3..c10d1ae4 100644
--- a/resources/terraform/do/main.tf
+++ b/resources/terraform/do/main.tf
@@ -1,44 +1,47 @@
 terraform {
   required_providers {
-    digitalocean = {
-      source = "digitalocean/digitalocean"
-      version = "2.17.0"
-    }
+    digitalocean = { source = "digitalocean/digitalocean" }
   }
 }
 
-provider "digitalocean" {
-}
-
 data "digitalocean_ssh_key" "ssh_key" {
   name = var.pub_key_name
 }
 
-
 resource "digitalocean_droplet" "dsiprouter" {
-        name = "${var.dsiprouter_prefix}-dsip-${var.branch}${count.index}"
-        count = var.number_of_environments
-        region = "tor1"
-        size="1gb"
-        image=var.image
-      	ssh_keys = [ data.digitalocean_ssh_key.ssh_key.fingerprint ]
-
-        connection {
-        host = self.ipv4_address
-        user = "root"
-        type = "ssh"
-        private_key = file(var.pvt_key_path)
-        timeout = "5m"
-        }
-
-        provisioner "remote-exec" {
-          inline = [
-		"apt-get update -y && sleep 30 && apt-get install -y git && cd /opt && git clone https://github.com/dOpensource/dsiprouter.git -b ${var.branch} && cd dsiprouter && ./dsiprouter.sh install -all && ${var.additional_commands}"
-        ]
-      }
+  name = var.node_name
+  count = var.number_of_environments
+  region = "nyc1"
+  size = "1gb"
+  image = var.image
+  ssh_keys = [data.digitalocean_ssh_key.ssh_key.fingerprint]
+
+  connection {
+    host = self.ipv4_address
+    user = "root"
+    type = "ssh"
+    private_key = file(var.pvt_key_path)
+    timeout = "5m"
+  }
+  provisioner "file" {
+    content = templatefile("${path.module}/install.tftpl", {
+      dsip_ver = var.dsip_ver
+      dsip_dir = var.dsip_dir
+      dsip_repo = var.dsip_repo
+      build_options = var.dsip_options
+      additional_commands = var.additional_commands
+    })
+    destination = "/tmp/build_dsip.sh"
+  }
+  provisioner "remote-exec" {
+    inline = [
+      "while [ ! -f /var/lib/cloud/instance/boot-finished ]; do sleep 3; done",
+      "chmod +x /tmp/build_dsip.sh",
+      "sudo /tmp/build_dsip.sh",
+    ]
+  }
 }
 
-
 resource "digitalocean_record" "dns_demo_record" {
   count = var.dns_demo_enabled
   domain = var.dns_demo_domain
diff --git a/resources/terraform/do/variables.tf b/resources/terraform/do/variables.tf
index fe912db1..68fc936e 100644
--- a/resources/terraform/do/variables.tf
+++ b/resources/terraform/do/variables.tf
@@ -1,46 +1,61 @@
 variable "pvt_key_path" {
-	type=string
+  type = string
 }
 
 variable "pub_key_name" {
-	type=string
+  type = string
 }
-variable "dsiprouter_prefix" {
-	type=string
-	default=""
+variable "node_name" {
+  type = string
+  default = "demo"
 }
 
 variable "dns_demo_domain" {
-	type=string
-	default=""
+  type = string
+  default = ""
 }
 
-variable  "dns_demo_enabled" {
-	type=number
-	default=0
+variable "dns_demo_enabled" {
+  type = number
+  default = 0
 }
 
 variable "dns_demo_hostname" {
-	type=string
-	default="demo"
+  type = string
+  default = "demo"
 }
 
 variable "number_of_environments" {
-	type=number
-	default="1"
+  type = number
+  default = "1"
 }
 
-variable "branch" {
-	type=string
-	default="master"
+variable "dsip_ver" {
+  type = string
+  default = "master"
+}
+
+variable "dsip_dir" {
+  type = string
+  default = "/opt/dsiprouter"
+}
+
+variable "dsip_repo" {
+  type = string
+  default = "https://github.com/dOpensource/dsiprouter.git"
+}
+
+variable "dsip_options" {
+  type = string
+  default = "install -all"
 }
 
 variable "image" {
-	type=string
-	default="debian-10-x64"
+  type = string
+  default = "debian-12-x64"
 }
 
 variable "additional_commands" {
-	type=string
-	default="echo"
+  type = string
+  default = "echo ''"
 }