could not query provider registry for registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/vsphere: failed to retrieve authentication checksums for provider: 404 Not Found

[cpaggen]

Terraform Version

0.14.4

Terraform Configuration Files

terraform {
  required_providers {
    vsphere = {
      source = "hashicorp/vsphere"
      version = "1.24.3"
    }
  }
}

provider "vsphere" {
  user                 = var.vsphere_user
  password             = var.vsphere_password
  vsphere_server       = var.vsphere_server
  allow_unverified_ssl = true
}

data "vsphere_datacenter" "dc" {
  name = var.datacenter_name
}

Debug Output

�Terraform v0.14.4
Initializing plugins and modules...

Initializing the backend...

Successfully configured the backend "remote"! Terraform will automatically
use this backend unless the backend configuration changes.

Initializing provider plugins...

• Finding hashicorp/vsphere versions matching "1.24.3"...

Error: Failed to install provider

Error while installing hashicorp/vsphere v1.24.3: could not query provider
registry for registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/vsphere: failed to retrieve
authentication checksums for provider: 404 Not Found

Operation failed: failed running terraform init (exit 1)�

More context

This has been running fine for weeks and suddenly stopped. Note that I'm starting my plan from TF cloud; the code is executed on a TF cloud agent. I restarted the agent, rm -rf .terraform.d and that did not help. It just refuses to fetch the checksum for the vsphere provider. The problem started occurring roughly 35 minutes ago (9am PST).

[dsavell]

Hey, looks like it could be related to this aswell: #27866

[rrazor]

I'm seeing this for hashicorp/aws on at least 3.28.0 and 3.29.0 as well.

[Lasering]

The urls for providers in the registry were:

registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/vsphere

But now they are:

registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/vsphere

Notice the extra /providers. This is what is causing the error.

[igorescobar]

Any workaround? 🤔

[punmechanic]

Find the provider in a different .terraform folder on your machine :D unfortunately there's no work around if initializing as terraform will always consult the online provider list

[rrazor]

I worked around things by identifying the most recent provider version I had in my .terraform.d/plugin-cache and setting the version in required_providers to exactly that.

[cpaggen]

@rrazor - would you kindly share the exact steps to do that? In my case, I'm starting terraform from tfcloud via an agent running on-prem.

[cpaggen]

Looks like Hashicorp is aware of the issue - https://status.hashicorp.com/

[danieldreier]

Hi! I really appreciate everyone reporting this. The root cause here is an incident in the releases.hashicorp.com and registry infrastructure. I'm going to close this and related issues and consolidate any ongoing discussion into #27872. Please do let us know in that issue if you are still having trouble downloading Terraform or providers.

[ghost]

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