Terraform providers: provider

Terraform providers are plugins to interact with cloud providers, SaaS providers, and other APIs.

• https://www.terraform.io/language/providers
• https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/providers/configuration.html
• Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers

Configuration:

• provider.tf and provider keyword
• .terraform/providers/

Binary:

• terraform providers command prints a tree of the Terraform providers used in the configuration.

Providers list

List of some Terraform providers, hashicorp/:

• provider "GitHub"
• provider "archive"
• provider "aws"
• provider "CodeBuild"
• provider "dns"

• provider "googleworkspace"
• provider "kubernetes"
• provider "helm"
• provider "Heroku
• provider "template (Deprecated)
• provider "tfe"
• provider "libvirt"
• provider "vault"
• multispace_run (Oct 2021)

Use: terraform providers command to list providers used in your main.tf file

Terraform provider: AWS

provider "aws" {
 version = "~> 3.38.0"
 region = "us-west-2"
 profile = "your_profile_name"
}

Related commands

• terraform state replace-provider
• terraform init and terraform init -upgrade
• terraform version

Errors

• Error: Incompatible provider version
• Error: Invalid provider configuration

Related terms

• Terraform modules
• providers.tf
• Terraform backends
• Terraform examples
• Terraform: resource, Terraform data source: data
• Terraform associate: Handle Terraform and provider installation and versioning
• Terraform multiple providers
• Terraform plugin
• Terraform multiple providers: alias
• terraform_remote_state buildin provider

See also

• Terraform provider: AWS, Cloudflare, GoogleWorkspace, Kubernetes, Helm, .terraform/providers/, template, tfe, providers.tf, dns, hashicorp/, hashicorp/tls, Terraform provider versioning, Libvirt, datadog, terraform providers, required_version, onepassword, rancher2, time, terraform.tf
• Terraform modules, terraform get, module { source }, AWS modules, module., child modules, Terraform modules inputs, submodules, terraform init -upgrade

https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/kubernetes/latest/docs