I created an Azure AI Search resource within the module az-search, which works. Now within az-search/main.tf, I am attempting to connect it to a virtual network and subnet, and create a private network for the Azure AI Search resource. So I am creating resources for azurerm_subnet, azurerm_private_endpoint, and azurerm_virtual_network.

This is the error message I get when running terraform plan:

To work with module.main.module.az-search.data.azurerm_subnet.search_subnet
│ its original provider configuration at
│ module.main.module.az-search.provider["registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm"].primarysubscription
│ is required, but it has been removed.

The same error message also shows for azurerm_private_endpoint and azurerm_virtual_network.

“primarysubscription” is my alias for the azurerm provider. This is within providers.tf

provider "azurerm" {
  alias           = "primarysubscription"
  subscription_id = var.az_subscription_id
  features {}
}

And I have azurerm as a required provider within my terraform.tf as well as my az-search/terraform.tf:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    azurerm = {
      source = "hashicorp/azurerm"
      version = ">= 3.88.0"
    }
    ...
}

When I run terraform providers this is my output:

└── module.main
    ├── provider[registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm] >= 3.88.0
    ├── provider[registry.terraform.io/mastercard/restapi] >= 1.19.1
    ├── provider[registry.terraform.io/azure/azapi] ~> 1.7.0
    ├── module.adf
    │   └── provider[registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm] >= 3.88.0
    ├── module.az-search
    │   ├── provider[registry.terraform.io/mastercard/restapi] >= 1.19.1
    │   ├── provider[registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm] >= 3.88.0
    │   └── provider[registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/null]
    └── module.cosmos
        ├── provider[registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm] >= 3.88.0
        └── module.comosdb-mongo
            └── provider[registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/azurerm] >= 3.3.0

So I do have hashicorp/azurerm provider in every module. Is there something I’m missing to get rid of the “Provider configuration not present” error?