New AzureRM version 4 Provider no subscription IDs for the now required subscription_id

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I’ve upgraded to the new 4.0.1 AzureRM Provider. The provider block requires subscription_id to be set, but if I don’t have any subscriptions what would I set a
subscription_id to ?

I totally agree with the subscription_id being required. I almost always set it to be explicit in my code, but now when I’m creating a new subscription it seems to be an issue.

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Ah, yes. The azurerm issue page directs questions to be asked here. This forum is the place for us all to scream into the void because nobody will hear you.

I am having this exact issue. I have an “empty” tenant and want to bootstrap up my subscription. I am currently looking for guidance on the proper way to do this. My current workaround is to set the undocumented environment variable ARM_PROVIDER_ENHANCED_VALIDATION to false and to use subscription_id = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" in the provider block.

This solution works but is super janky. I would like some official guidance on how to properly do this. If this is the “proper” way of doing it, it needs to be well documented.

provider "azurerm" {
  features {}

  subscription_id                 = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
  resource_provider_registrations = "none"
}