Ever since I upgraded terraform version from 0.11 ->0.12 → 0.13. Terraform download the provider multiple time. Once at the time of plan and then at the time of apply. Previously, it use to run only once. Second, It reverts back the aws-auth configmap and removes all the users I added. This was wor…

Hi @vrathore18 , Terraform only installs providers when you run terraform init. The terraform plan and terraform apply commands only use providers already cached in your working directory. Are you running terraform init again before you run terraform apply? That would cause Terraform to re-initiali…

Yes. that is what my understand was. I have a makefile which do this steps: terraform init terraform apply Providers are downloading on init steps and again in apply after successfully configured the backend “s3”

Hi @vrathore18 , I believe that in a later release Terraform reverted to the previous behavior of only downloading providers that aren’t already present in the local directory, so if you keep upgrading to v0.14 and then to v0.15 I think you will see Terraform return to the behavior you’re expecting …

Terraform taking ages to download providers and download multiple times

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Terraform taking ages to download providers and download multiple times

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