How do I upgrade or pin a Terraform Provider?

Question

This is a follow-up to The provider hashicorp/aws does not support resource type "aws_internet_gateway_attachment".

The crux of it is, I'm using 3.75.1 of the AWS provider, and I need to upgrade. How do I do that?

I got the version by reading the .terraform.lock.hcl

provider "registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws" {
  version     = "3.75.1"

Answer 1

Upgrading to the newest version

You can upgrade the provider with

terraform init -upgrade

So long as you don't have the version specified anywhere in a required_providers block.

Pinning with a required_providers block

You can pin or specify any arbitrary version constraint with a required_providers block, like this.

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source = "registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws"
      version = "4.14.0"
    }
  }
}
provider "aws" {
  region = "us-east-1"
}

Terraform pre 0.13

Prior to Terraform version 0.13, you could specify your version in the provider block,

provider "aws" {
  version = "4.14.0"
  region = "us-east-1"
}

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Find the official docs at,

• Lock and Upgrade Provider Versions: Upgrade the AWS provider version
• Provider Requirements