terraform providers lock cannot upgrade and terraform init cannot specify a platform

[grimm26]

Terraform Version

Terraform v1.4.2
on darwin_arm64

Use Cases

Our terraform commands run on atlantis on a linux_amd64 container. Many of my users are on darwin_arm64 machines and we are using a provider version that does not have darwin_arm64 binaries in its release (infobloxopen/infoblox v1.1.1). This causes terraform init to fail because it cannot download a provider for the user's platform. I told them to instead use terraform providers lock -platform=linux_amd64 to generate the lock file. This is fine for generating an initial lock file but it will not perform an upgrade. It tells you to use init for that.

So, init cannot be told a specific platform and providers lock cannot be told to upgrade. This is the proverbial rock and hard place.

Attempted Solutions

Right now I told them to delete the lock file before they run terraform providers lock -platform=linux_amd64 when they need to upgrade a provider version.

Proposal

Add an -upgrade flag to terraform providers lock or add a -platform flag to terraform init.

References

No response

[sushant-kapoor17]

Hello @grimm26 ,
If my memory serves me right,I remember looking at a similar issue few months ago, which still remains open.

I believe there was a proposal to explore a future update like:
terraform providers lock -upgrade -platform=darwin_amd64 -platform=linux_amd64

This suggestion has been explained in detail here, if it helps.

Unfortunately, I think there are only a few workarounds which can be useful for now, which could be accommodated as a Makefile target to refresh providers for different platforms.

Hope this helps a bit.

Thanks

[jbg]

The linked workaround uses init and therefore only works if all providers have an available build for the local platform where the command is being run. In OP's case, that's not the case, so init will fail. The only workaround I'm aware of is to delete the lockfile and then run providers lock.

[AndresPinerosZen]

It's really crazy how difficult they made it.

Just let people specify the platforms in the terraform{} block and that's it. It's that simple.