Pre-installed plugin instructions are out of date

[BerryR-RBA]

Terraform Version

Terraform v1.8.5
on windows_amd64

Affected Pages

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/automation/automate-terraform#pre-installed-plugins

What is the docs issue?

The example is a single directory of plugins, but it needs to follow the filesystem_mirror format described in https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/config/config-file#explicit-installation-method-configuration.

Note that manual plugin installation is a source of confusion (eg, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70413209/canonical-way-to-make-terraform-use-only-local-plugins) and incorrect docs are contributing to this problem.

Proposal

• Update the example
• Link to https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/config/config-file#explicit-installation-method-configuration

References

No response

[crw]

Thanks for this report!