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TERRAFORM GOOGLE PROVIDERS SHIP MAJOR REFACTOR ACROSS DUAL TRACKS

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Both the stable and beta Terraform Google providers are mid-migration away from legacy client patterns, replacing BasePath usage and moving to direct HTTP transport across compute, SQL, and resource management services.

The Google provider team is executing a coordinated refactor across terraform-provider-google and terraform-provider-google-beta [ref:7,12], replacing hardcoded BasePath usage in universe tests, ACM, AD, AlloyDB, and Apigee with a more maintainable pattern. This foundational work is paired with client migrations that decouple SQL, BackupDR, Dataflow, and ResourceManager services from legacy abstractions [ref:9,14], with a notable subpackaging of ResourceManager to resolve circular dependencies with compute. The framework provider is being moved to use the registry directly [ref:8,13], reducing technical debt in the dual-provider model. On the feature side, both providers now support `gce_hd` in workstations_workstation_config [ref:10,15], and compute's ProjectMetadataItem resource has been migrated to direct HTTP transport rather than client libraries [ref:11,16]—a pattern that signals the team's broader push toward simpler, more direct API interactions. Meanwhile, Nomad's ecosystem is live with nightly snapshots of podman-driver, autoscaler, and pack [ref:1,5,6], with go-jose crypto library fixes landing in podman-driver [ref:2,3] to address JWE decryption panics.

Action items

References

  1. [1] Replaced BasePath usage in universe tests, acm, ad, alloydb, and apigee ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google-beta
  2. [2] Replaced BasePath usage in universe tests, acm, ad, alloydb, and apigee ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
  3. [3] Moved framework provider to using registry ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google-beta
  4. [4] Moved framework provider to using registry ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
  5. [5] Moved clients for sql, backupdr, dataflow, resourcemanager, and resourcemanagerv3 ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google-beta
  6. [6] Moved clients for sql, backupdr, dataflow, resourcemanager, and resourcemanagerv3 ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
  7. [7] Add support for gce_hd in workstations_workstation_config. ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google-beta
  8. [8] Add support for gce_hd in workstations_workstation_config. ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
  9. [9] Migrate resource_compute_project_metadata_item to use transport_tpg.SendRequest ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google-beta
  10. [10] Migrate resource_compute_project_metadata_item to use transport_tpg.SendRequest ↗ hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
  11. [11] nightly ↗ hashicorp/nomad-driver-podman
  12. [12] nightly ↗ hashicorp/nomad-autoscaler
  13. [13] nightly ↗ hashicorp/nomad-pack
  14. [14] build(deps): bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 from 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 ↗ hashicorp/nomad-driver-podman
  15. [15] build(deps): bump github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v3 from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 ↗ hashicorp/nomad-driver-podman

Quick answers

What shipped in HashiCorp on May 2, 2026?
Both the stable and beta Terraform Google providers are mid-migration away from legacy client patterns, replacing BasePath usage and moving to direct HTTP transport across compute, SQL, and resource management services. In total, 15 commits, 18 pull requests, and 3 releases landed.
Who contributed to HashiCorp on May 2, 2026?
2 developers shipped this update, including modular-magician and dependabot[bot].
What were the notable HashiCorp updates?
Replaced BasePath usage in universe tests, acm, ad, alloydb, and apigee, Replaced BasePath usage in universe tests, acm, ad, alloydb, and apigee, and Moved framework provider to using registry.