Terraform: Skipping Buggy Provider Version

PROBLEM

Given the following required_providers block…

terraform {
  required_providers {
    google = "~> 3.8"
  }
}

… it will allow the following Google provider version: >= 3.8, < 4.0.

As of today (May 10), the latest Google provider is 3.20.0. A quick terraform init confirms that.

Initializing provider plugins...
- Checking for available provider plugins...
- Downloading plugin for provider "google" (hashicorp/google) 3.20.0...

However, sometimes, there’s a need to skip a buggy version. For example, 3.20.0 breaks google_compute_firewall.

SOLUTION

To achieve that, we can do the following…

terraform {
  required_providers {
    google = "~> 3.8, != 3.20.0"
  }
}

To confirm this works, after deleting .terraform/ dir, terraform init now shows the following result…

Initializing provider plugins...
- Checking for available provider plugins...
- Downloading plugin for provider "google" (hashicorp/google) 3.19.0...