reword inheritance upgrade guide

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James Bardin 2017-11-17 17:54:33 -05:00
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the descendent and the descendent no longer inherits attributes from
its ancestor. Instead, each configuration is entirely distinct.
* Only unaliased provider configurations can be automatically inherited from
ancestor modules. Aliased providers must be passed explicitly using
* If a `provider` block is present in a child module, it must either contain a
complete configuration for its associated provider or a configuration must be
passed from the parent module using
[the new `providers` attribute](/docs/modules/usage.html#providers-within-modules).
In the latter case, an empty provider block is a placeholder that declares
that the child module requires a configuration to be passed from its parent.
* When a module containing its own `provider` blocks is removed from its
parent module, Terraform will no longer attempt to associate it with
@ -143,8 +146,9 @@ With the above configuration, any `aws` provider resources in the module
`module.example-use1` and the us-west-1 provider configuration for
`module.example-usw1`.
When only default (non-aliased) providers are in use, automatic inheritance
to child modules is still supported.
When a default (non-aliased) provider is used, and not explicitly
declared in a child module, automatic inheritance of that provider is still
supported.
**Action**: In existing configurations where both a descendent module and
one of its ancestor modules both configure the same provider, copy any