Terraform providers are always installed from the Internet.

The correct answer is B. False. This is false. While Terraform defaults to downloading providers from the public Terraform Registry (registry.terraform.io), there are several alternative sources. Providers can be installed from: a private/mirror registry, a local filesystem directory (using a…

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ATrue
BFalse

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A
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B
87% (48)

Explanation

This is false. While Terraform defaults to downloading providers from the public Terraform Registry (registry.terraform.io), there are several alternative sources. Providers can be installed from: a private/mirror registry, a local filesystem directory (using a filesystem_mirror), a network mirror, or by manually placing provider binaries in the plugin cache directory. This is especially important in air-gapped or highly restricted enterprise environments where direct Internet access is not available.

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