🟦 Provider
- Talks to cloud APIs
- Required in every config
- Installed via:
terraform init
Types
→ Official maintained by hashicorp (AWS, Azure, GCP) → Partner Heroku & digital ocean → Community open source
registry.terraform.io - registry name hashicorp/local - provider name
Versioning
→ Two versions: Terraform CLI + Provider
→ Pin versions to avoid breakage
Constraints
=, !=, <, <=, >=, >, ~>
Examples:
~> 6.7.0→ 6.7.x~> 1.0→ 1.x.x (not 2.0)
Block
terraform {
required_providers {
aws = {
source = "hashicorp/aws"
version = "~> 6.0"
}
}
}
provider "aws" {
region = "us-east-1"
}