github.com/hugorut/terraform@v1.1.3/website/docs/cli/commands/providers/mirror.mdx (about) 1 --- 2 page_title: 'Command: providers mirror' 3 description: |- 4 The `terraform providers mirror` command downloads the providers required 5 for the current configuration and copies them into a directory in the local 6 filesystem. 7 --- 8 9 # Command: terraform providers mirror 10 11 The `terraform providers mirror` command downloads the providers required 12 for the current configuration and copies them into a directory in the local 13 filesystem. 14 15 In normal use, `terraform init` will automatically download needed providers 16 from provider registries as part of initializing the current working directory. 17 Sometimes Terraform is running in an environment where that isn't possible, 18 such as on an isolated network without access to the Terraform Registry. In 19 that case, 20 [explicit installation method configuration](/cli/config/config-file#explicit-installation-method-configuration) 21 allows you to configure Terraform, when running on a particular system, to 22 consult only a local filesystem directory where you've created a local mirror 23 of the necessary plugins, and to skip accessing the upstream registry at all. 24 25 The `terraform providers mirror` command can automatically populate a directory 26 that will be used as a local filesystem mirror in the provider installation 27 configuration. 28 29 -> `terraform providers mirror` is available only in Terraform v0.13 or later. 30 31 ## Usage 32 33 Usage: `terraform providers mirror [options] <target-dir>` 34 35 A single target directory is required. Terraform will create under that 36 directory the path structure that is expected for filesystem-based provider 37 plugin mirrors, populating it with `.zip` files containing the plugins 38 themselves. 39 40 Terraform will also generate various `.json` index files which contain suitable 41 responses to implement 42 [the network mirror protocol](/internals/provider-network-mirror-protocol), 43 if you upload the resulting directory to a static website host. Terraform 44 ignores those index files when using the directory as a filesystem mirror, 45 because the directory entries themselves are authoritative in that case. 46 47 This command supports the following additional option: 48 49 * `-platform=OS_ARCH` - Choose which target platform to build a mirror for. 50 By default Terraform will obtain plugin packages suitable for the platform 51 where you run this command. Use this flag multiple times to include packages 52 for multiple target systems. 53 54 Target platform names consist of an operating system and a CPU 55 architecture. For example, `linux_amd64` selects the Linux operating system 56 running on an AMD64 or x86_64 CPU. 57 58 You can run `terraform providers mirror` again on an existing mirror directory 59 to update it with new packages. For example, you can add packages for a new 60 target platform by re-running the command with the desired new `-platform=...` 61 option, and it will place the packages for that new platform without removing 62 packages you previously downloaded, merging the resulting set of packages 63 together to update the JSON index files.