A company is adopting Terraform to manage resources across AWS and Azure. The team wants to ensure that every configuration explicitly declares the provider source and version, and that the providers are installed automatically when a new engineer runs terraform init. What should the team do?

Manually download the provider binaries from the Terraform Registry and place them in the project directory.

Define a provider block for each cloud in the configuration without a required_providers block.

Use the terraform providers command to install all providers before running terraform init.

Add a required_providers block to each configuration specifying the source and version constraints, then run terraform init.

Where does terraform init store the provider plugins it downloads?

In the same directory as the configuration files

In the system's global package cache

In the Terraform Registry's cache

In the .terraform directory within the working directory

What is the default source that terraform init uses to download providers?

The provider's official website

A developer wants to use a community-maintained provider for a niche infrastructure platform. They find the provider on the Terraform Registry and add the required_providers block to their configuration. What happens when they run terraform init?

Terraform creates a new provider plugin from the configuration and uploads it to the registry.

Terraform prompts the developer to manually download the provider and place it in the project directory.

Terraform downloads the provider plugin from the Terraform Registry and installs it locally.

Terraform validates the provider's source code for security vulnerabilities before installation.

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A team manages a Terraform configuration that uses the Google Cloud provider. They want to ensure that all team members use a provider version that is at least 4.0.0 but less than 5.0.0, and they also want to prevent Terraform from automatically upgrading to a newer major version. Which version constraint should they use?
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