Hello, I upgraded to this version of Terraform yesterday. When I do Terraform init, it checks for available provider plugins and I get an error message stating “Failed to find plugin version 2.56.0; this is a bug in Terraform and should be reported”. However, there is an AWS plugin v2.56.0_x4.exe …

Answered my own question. In the main.tf file that I have, I had the provider aws in all caps instead of lower case. Once I changed that to lower case, it worked.

Thanks for the followup, @timstspry ! The way this failed seems to be a consequence of how Terraform’s plugin discovery is case-sensitive but Windows filesystems are case-insensitive: I think what happened here is that Terraform downloaded the same package twice, extracted both copies into the same …

Terraform_0.12.24 Cannot find AWS plugin v2.56.0

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timstspry April 6, 2020, 9:26pm 4

Great to hear that 0.13 may help this issue. Thanks for the information!

Tim

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Terraform_0.12.24 Cannot find AWS plugin v2.56.0

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