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 Libvirt module

provider "libvirt" {
  uri = "qemu:///system"
}

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

• providers.tf
• Terraform backends
• Terraform examples
• Terraform libvirt provider
• Terraform modules
• Terraform data source: data
• Terraform: resource
• 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, OpenTofu, Installation, Terraform AWS, Terraform GCP, Terraform commands, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise (TFE), HCL, HIL, meta-arguments, providers, modules, resource, provisioners, data sources, backends: remote backends, examples, configuration files, state files, variables, types, Terraform Registry, conditionals: depends_on, functions, Blocks, dynamic blocks, errors, Terragrunt, Terraformer, Terratest, Terraform certifications, Terraform map type, Terraform Associate, Terraform: list type, TF_VAR_, TF_LOG, Terraform provider versioning, Terraform Style Conventions, Required version, Terraform plugin, Terraform Named Values, tags, Changelog, tfsec, tflint, Operators, Expressions: for, splat, Debugging, Namespaces, Terraform Landing Zones, CDKTF, Atmos

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

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