Building Custom Providers
Extend Terraform beyond existing integrations by understanding how providers work and authoring a custom provider with the Terraform Plugin Framework.
When Existing Providers Fall Short
The registry covers most platforms, but enterprises often run internal APIs with no provider. A custom provider lets Terraform manage those resources with the same plan/apply lifecycle.
How Providers Work
A provider is a separate plugin binary that Terraform launches and talks to over gRPC. The plugin translates Terraform's CRUD operations into API calls against the target system.
All lessons in this course
- Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Patterns
- Sentinel Policies for Governance
- Terraform Cloud and Enterprise
- Building Custom Providers