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Chapter 44 - Manage Terraform Providers

terraform provider will allow you to check the providers Protip: Running terraform version inside of an initialized directory will give you the Terraform version AND the provider versions.

Providers lock​

You can create the .terraform.lock.hcl file by running the terraform providers lock command.

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This will not download any providers, but create the lock file based on the terraform configuration.

Generating the hcl lock file for multiple platforms​

terraform providers lock -platform=windows_amd64 -platform=darwin_amd64 -platform=linux_amd64 will generate a terraform.lock.hcl file for all versions of these operating systems.

Terraform Providers Mirror​

The terraform providers mirror command downloads the providers required for the current configuration and copies them into a directory in the local filesystem.