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Terraform Provider Breaking Changes

Official⏱ Weekly digest, Tuesdays

Provider majors land quietly and then a routine plan wants to destroy half your infrastructure. This watch reads every major release of the providers you pin and flags the ones that touch resources you use, with the upgrade guide in hand before you bump a version constraint.

Suggested cadence
Weekly digest, Tuesdays
Typically watches
Terraform Registry · HashiCorp releases · OpenTofu blog · Provider changelogs
Tags
terraform · iac · breaking-changes · platform

The prompt

I lead a platform team in Amsterdam managing about 200 Terraform workspaces. Watch for new major versions of the AWS, Cloudflare, and Datadog providers and of Terraform and OpenTofu themselves. Must flag breaking changes to aws_s3_bucket, aws_iam, and cloudflare_record resources specifically, and link the official upgrade guide. State migration requirements are critical, call those out first. Minor and patch releases only matter if they deprecate an argument we'd use.

This is the whole template — the words the wizard analyzes into sources, filters, and a schedule. You review and edit every step before the watch runs.