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layout: "language"
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page_title: "Providers - Configuration Language"
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# Providers
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Terraform relies on plugins called "providers" to interact with remote systems.
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Terraform configurations must declare which providers they require so that
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Terraform can install and use them. Additionally, some providers require
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configuration (like endpoint URLs or cloud regions) before they can be used.
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## What Providers Do
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Each provider adds a set of [resource types](/docs/configuration/blocks/resources/index.html)
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and/or [data sources](/docs/configuration/data-sources.html) that Terraform can
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manage.
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Every resource type is implemented by a provider; without providers, Terraform
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can't manage any kind of infrastructure.
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Most providers configure a specific infrastructure platform (either cloud or
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self-hosted). Providers can also offer local utilities for tasks like
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generating random numbers for unique resource names.
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## Where Providers Come From
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Providers are distributed separately from Terraform itself, and each provider
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has its own release cadence and version numbers.
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The [Terraform Registry](https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers)
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is the main directory of publicly available Terraform providers, and hosts
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providers for most major infrastructure platforms.
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## How to Use Providers
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To use resources from a given provider, you need to include some information
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about it in your configuration. See the following pages for details:
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- [Provider Requirements](/docs/configuration/provider-requirements.html)
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documents how to declare providers so Terraform can install them.
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- [Provider Configuration](/docs/configuration/providers.html)
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documents how to configure settings for providers.
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- [Dependency Lock File](/docs/configuration/dependency-lock.html)
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documents an additional HCL file that can be included with a configuration,
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which tells Terraform to always use a specific set of provider versions.
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## Provider Installation
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- Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise install providers as part of every run.
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- Terraform CLI finds and installs providers when
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[initializing a working directory](/docs/cli/init/index.html). It can
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automatically download providers from a Terraform registry, or load them from
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a local mirror or cache. If you are using a persistent working directory, you
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must reinitialize whenever you change a configuration's providers.
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To save time and bandwidth, Terraform CLI supports an optional plugin
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cache. You can enable the cache using the `plugin_cache_dir` setting in
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[the CLI configuration file](/docs/commands/cli-config.html).
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To ensure Terraform always installs the same provider versions for a given
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configuration, you can use Terraform CLI to create a
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[dependency lock file](/docs/configuration/dependency-lock.html)
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and commit it to version control along with your configuration. If a lock file
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is present, Terraform Cloud, CLI, and Enterprise will all obey it when
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installing providers.
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## How to Find Providers
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To find providers for the infrastructure platforms you use, browse
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[the providers section of the Terraform Registry](https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers).
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Some providers on the Registry are developed and published by HashiCorp, some
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are published by platform maintainers, and some are published by users and
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volunteers. The provider listings use the following badges to indicate who
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develops and maintains a given provider.
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<table border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;">
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<tbody>
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<tr style="height: 21px;">
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<td style="width: 12.4839%; height: 21px;"><strong>Tier</strong></td>
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<td style="width: 55.7271%; height: 21px;"><strong>Description</strong></td>
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<td style="width: 31.7889%; height: 21px;"><strong>Namespace</strong></td>
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</tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;">
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<td style="width: 12.4839%; height: 21px;"><img src="/docs/registry/providers/images/official-tier.png" alt="" /></td>
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<td style="width: 55.7271%; height: 21px;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Official providers are owned and maintained by HashiCorp </span></i></td>
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<td style="width: 31.7889%; height: 21px;"><code><span style="font-weight: 400;">hashicorp</span></code></td>
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</tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;">
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<td style="width: 12.4839%; height: 21px;"><img src="/docs/registry/providers/images/verified-tier.png" alt="" /></td>
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<td style="width: 55.7271%; height: 21px;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Verified providers are owned and maintained by third-party technology partners. Providers in this tier indicate HashiCorp has verified the authenticity of the Provider’s publisher, and that the partner is a member of the </span></i><a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/ecosystem/become-a-partner/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">HashiCorp Technology Partner Program</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></td>
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<td style="width: 31.7889%; height: 21px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Third-party organization, e.g. </span><code><span style="font-weight: 400;">mongodb/mongodbatlas</span></code></td>
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</tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;">
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<td style="width: 12.4839%; height: 21px;"><img src="/docs/registry/providers/images/community-tier.png" alt="" /></td>
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<td style="width: 55.7271%; height: 21px;">Community providers are published to the Terraform Registry by individual maintainers, groups of maintainers, or other members of the Terraform community.</td>
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<td style="width: 31.7889%; height: 21px;"><br />Maintainer’s individual or organization account, e.g. <code>DeviaVir/gsuite</code></td>
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</tr>
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<tr style="height: 21px;">
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<td style="width: 12.4839%; height: 21px;"><img src="/docs/registry/providers/images/archived-tier.png" alt="" /></td>
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<td style="width: 55.7271%; height: 21px;">Archived Providers are Official or Verified Providers that are no longer maintained by HashiCorp or the community. This may occur if an API is deprecated or interest was low.</td>
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<td style="width: 31.7889%; height: 21px;"><code>hashicorp</code> or third-party</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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## How to Develop Providers
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Providers are written in Go, using the Terraform Plugin SDK. For more
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information on developing providers, see:
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- The [Extending Terraform](/docs/extend/index.html) documentation
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- The [Call APIs with Terraform Providers](https://learn.hashicorp.com/collections/terraform/providers?utm_source=WEBSITE&utm_medium=WEB_IO&utm_offer=ARTICLE_PAGE&utm_content=DOCS)
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collection on HashiCorp Learn
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