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To scaffold a new Terraform provider with Plugin Framework:
- If I am already in a Terraform provider workspace, then confirm that I want
to create a new workspace. If I do not want to create a new workspace, then skip all remaining steps.
- Create a new workspace root directory. The root directory name should be
prefixed with "terraform-provider-". Perform all subsequent steps in this new workspace.
- Initialize a new Go module.
- Run
go get -u github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-framework@latest. - Write a main.go file that follows the example.
- Write an
internal/provider/provider.gofile that follows
the example. Rename the demo provider, the DEMO_* environment variables, and the authentication attributes to match the target API.
- Remove TODO comments from
main.goandprovider.go. - Run
go mod tidy - Run
go build -o /dev/null - Run
go test ./...
The scaffold resolves credentials as explicit config with environment variable fallback. To grow that into a full credential provider chain (shared credentials files, profiles, platform identity, configure-time validation), use the provider-configuration skill (if available). To add the first resource or data source, use the provider-resources skill (if available).

