Can and how do you use Terraform providers in secure/disconnected environments?

Question

Does anyone have ideas/experience with using Terraform in an environment disconnected from the Internet?

Trying to determine the best approach for acquiring the needed providers and resources to do deployments in a disconnected environment.

What's your exact question here? – StephenKing Jan 17 '19 at 21:08 — StephenKing, Jan 17 '19 at 21:08
https://stackoverflow.com/a/50944611/498256 – BMW Jan 17 '19 at 21:32 — BMW, Jan 17 '19 at 21:32

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '19 at 21:11

You can use the plugin cache and place the providers downloaded from https://releases.hashicorp.com/ or populated automatically via terraform init.

Configure the path to the plugin cache directory in .terraformrc:

plugin_cache_dir = "$HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache"

or via an environment variable:

export TF_PLUGIN_CACHE_DIR="$HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache"

This is well-described in the Terraform documentation.

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