terraform-provider-google: Error installing provider "google"

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Terraform Version

v0.12.31

Affected Resource(s)

provider "google" {
  credentials = <REDACTED>
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/will-gant/5ac91bc8177e16d8a902e99161a506d2

Expected Behavior

Something like this:

Initializing the backend...

Initializing provider plugins...
- Checking for available provider plugins...
- Downloading plugin for provider "google" (hashicorp/google) 4.2.0...

...
* provider.google: version = "~> 4.2"

Terraform has been successfully initialized!

Actual Behavior

Error installing provider "google": failed to find installed plugin version 4.2.0; this is a bug in Terraform and should be reported.

Steps to Reproduce

terraform init

Important Factoids

I believe this is the first time we’ve tried to run terraform init against v4.2.0 of the provider, which was released two hours before I wrote this issue.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 20
Comments: 18

Most upvoted comments

Also getting the issue with tf 0.12.31

andygreenoughLBG on Dec 3, 2021

@will-gant Can you re-open this issue? We experienced the same error today on terraform version 0.12.31.

PatrickDale on Dec 2, 2021

Thanks @c2thorn! v4.2.1 works for me on Terraform 0.12.31!

PatrickDale on Dec 6, 2021

Hi folks,

We’ve pushed out v4.2.1 of the google and google-beta providers using our previous release process. These releases should be the same as v4.2.0 but without the Terraform 0.13+ requirement. Please try them out.

c2thorn on Dec 3, 2021

We weren’t aware of new Core version requirements as part of this release, as far as I’m aware- as https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/issues/10671#issuecomment-985271479 points out we used a new release process for the build (which was also why the release went out later in the week rather than Monday) and we believed the change in release tooling would have no effect on end users.

I don’t have access to the release systems/registry to dig into this myself but I’ll get the right folks looking at this!

rileykarson on Dec 3, 2021

Google Provider 4.2.0 requires Terraform 0.13+.

Could you tell me where this is documented? README still shows Terraform 12+, and changelog does not mention about this

submac on Dec 3, 2021

Same issue with tf 0.12.31

Initializing provider plugins...
- Checking for available provider plugins...
- Downloading plugin for provider "google" (hashicorp/google) 4.2.0...

Error installing provider "google": failed to find installed plugin version 4.2.0; this is a bug in Terraform and should be reported.

Terraform analyses the configuration and state and automatically downloads
plugins for the providers used. However, when attempting to download this
plugin an unexpected error occurred.

This may be caused if for some reason Terraform is unable to reach the
plugin repository. The repository may be unreachable if access is blocked
by a firewall.

If automatic installation is not possible or desirable in your environment,
you may alternatively manually install plugins by downloading a suitable
distribution package and placing the plugin's executable file in the
following directory:
    terraform.d/plugins/linux_amd64


Error: failed to find installed plugin version 4.2.0; this is a bug in Terraform and should be reported

We’re getting the exact same message

OliverUrsell on Dec 3, 2021

@PatrickDale Done

will-gant on Dec 3, 2021