Upgrading Terraform providers

One of the best practices of Terraform is to ensure the Terraform configuration is up to date with the most recent version of Terraform providers used in the configuration.

If you encounter a problem with the Terraform init command, try updating your Terraform provider. We will show you how to do this in this section.

For information, init is the first step in the Terraform workflow. For more details on init, see the documentation here: https://www.terraform.io/cli/commands/init.

In this recipe, we will see how to update a provider in your Terraform configuration.

Let’s get started!

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you’ll need to have Terraform installed, and we start with the existing following basic Terraform configuration written in main.tf:

terraform {
  required_version = ">= 1.0.0"
  required_providers {
    azurerm = {
      source  = "hashicorp/azurerm"
      version...