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layout: "language"
page_title: "Provider Documentation"
sidebar_current: "docs-providers"
description: |-
  Pointers to documentation for Terraform provider plugins, including the Terraform Registry.
---

# Provider Documentation

## Find Provider Docs
Every Terraform provider has its own documentation that describes its resource
types and their arguments available on the [Terraform Registry](https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers)

## Write Provider Docs
Learn more about writing, generating, and rendering provider documentation
in the [provider publishing documentation](/docs/registry/providers/docs.html).
website: Starting to add providers 2014-07-23 20:50:41 +02:00			`---`
website: Adopt a ton of pages into the "language" layout As of this commit, that layout doesn't exist yet, but I'm isolating the one-line changes to their own commit to try and keep your eyes from glazing over. 2020-08-15 03:51:06 +02:00			`layout: "language"`
website: Remove provider category indexes, reduce main list As of December 18, 2020, we've redirected nearly all of the provider documentation that used to live on terraform.io: - For providers that got published on the Registry, we redirected each docs page to the corresponding Registry docs page. - For providers that never got adopted by a new publisher, we archived the GitHub repository and redirected each docs page to the corresponding Markdown source file on github.com. (For an example of these redirects, see https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/telefonicaopencloud/r/s3_bucket.html) There are ten providers left that we haven't redirected. These ones got adopted by new publishers and _will_ end up on the Registry, but they aren't quite ready to ship and get their permanent redirects, and we don't want to sabotage their SEO by 301ing to a temporary destination. 2020-12-18 22:13:45 +01:00			`page_title: "Provider Documentation"`
website: Starting to add providers 2014-07-23 20:50:41 +02:00			`sidebar_current: "docs-providers"`
Add meta descriptions to all pages 2014-10-22 05:21:56 +02:00			`description: \|-`
Make description metadata shorter 2021-07-09 17:30:13 +02:00			`Pointers to documentation for Terraform provider plugins, including the Terraform Registry.`
website: Starting to add providers 2014-07-23 20:50:41 +02:00			`---`

website: Remove provider category indexes, reduce main list As of December 18, 2020, we've redirected nearly all of the provider documentation that used to live on terraform.io: - For providers that got published on the Registry, we redirected each docs page to the corresponding Registry docs page. - For providers that never got adopted by a new publisher, we archived the GitHub repository and redirected each docs page to the corresponding Markdown source file on github.com. (For an example of these redirects, see https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/telefonicaopencloud/r/s3_bucket.html) There are ten providers left that we haven't redirected. These ones got adopted by new publishers and _will_ end up on the Registry, but they aren't quite ready to ship and get their permanent redirects, and we don't want to sabotage their SEO by 301ing to a temporary destination. 2020-12-18 22:13:45 +01:00			`# Provider Documentation`
Website: 0.13 docs edits, mostly around provider requirements (#25686) * Make sidebar nav in language docs more intuitive * Minor display fixes for registry docs * Explain providers in the registry in the providers index * Revise a bunch of language docs around provider reqs This is mostly an effort to smooth out some of the explanations, make sure things are presented in a helpful order, make sure terminology lines up, draw connections between related concepts, make default behavior more apparent, and the like. It shouldn't include very much new information, but there might be one or two things that came out of a conversation somewhere. Co-authored-by: Judith Malnick <judith@hashicorp.com> 2020-07-31 06:07:36 +02:00
Remove temporary providers doc reference 2021-07-09 23:16:41 +02:00			`## Find Provider Docs`
			`Every Terraform provider has its own documentation that describes its resource`
			`types and their arguments available on the [Terraform Registry](https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers)`
Website: 0.13 docs edits, mostly around provider requirements (#25686) * Make sidebar nav in language docs more intuitive * Minor display fixes for registry docs * Explain providers in the registry in the providers index * Revise a bunch of language docs around provider reqs This is mostly an effort to smooth out some of the explanations, make sure things are presented in a helpful order, make sure terminology lines up, draw connections between related concepts, make default behavior more apparent, and the like. It shouldn't include very much new information, but there might be one or two things that came out of a conversation somewhere. Co-authored-by: Judith Malnick <judith@hashicorp.com> 2020-07-31 06:07:36 +02:00
Remove temporary providers doc reference 2021-07-09 23:16:41 +02:00			`## Write Provider Docs`
website: add links to the registry provider documentation (#27416) * docs: add links to the registry provider documentation * Adjust wording/link URL Co-authored-by: Nick Fagerlund <nick@hashicorp.com> 2021-01-13 01:06:50 +01:00			`Learn more about writing, generating, and rendering provider documentation`
			`in the [provider publishing documentation](/docs/registry/providers/docs.html).`