Provider customization

Terraform communicates with cloud and global network provider APIs such as Cloudflare through modules known as providers. These providers are installed automatically when you run terraform init in a directory that has a .tf file containing a provider.

Typically, the only required parameters to the provider are those required to authenticate. However, you may want to customize the provider to your needs. The following section covers some optional settings ↗ that you can pass to the Cloudflare Terraform provider.

Adjust the default Cloudflare provider settings

Note

The examples below build on the Cloudflare Terraform tutorial.

You can customize the Cloudflare Terraform provider using configuration parameters, specified either in your .tf configuration files or via environment variables. Using environment variables may make sense when running Terraform from a CI/CD system or when the change is temporary and does not need to be persisted in your configuration history.