[simonchrz]

Step 1 from #670: a provider network mirror for Terraform and OpenTofu.

Clients point the CLI config at the proxy, and source addresses stay as they are:

provider_installation {
  network_mirror { url = "https://proxy.example/terraform/providers/" }
}

• index.json and {version}.json are built from the registry's version list and per-platform download documents. The handler finds them through service discovery, and all of them go through the metadata cache, with stale fallback.
• Archives are cached and checked against the registry's shasum before they are served. {version}.json lists that shasum as a zh: hash, which Terraform checks and writes to the lock file.
• registry.terraform.io and registry.opentofu.org are mirrored by default. upstream.terraform maps other hostnames to registries. A hostname that isn't configured gets a 404 and is never fetched.
• There's no PURL type for providers, so archives are cached as pkg:generic/terraform-provider/{hostname}/{namespace}/{type}, the way Swift uses pkg:generic/swift-registry. Happy to change this if you'd rather have something else.

Cooldown and modules are left for follow-up PRs.

I tested it against both public registries: index.json, {version}.json and an archive for hashicorp/random, and {version}.json for hashicorp/aws. The archive's sha256 matched the listed zh: hash.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added Terraform and OpenTofu provider mirroring, including provider discovery, version and platform metadata, and archive downloads.
  • The mirror supports registry.terraform.io and registry.opentofu.org by default. Configuring custom registries replaces these defaults; unconfigured registry hosts are not served.
  • Provider metadata and archives are cached, and downloaded archives are verified against registry checksums.
  • Added Terraform provider support to ecosystem identification and version denylist matching.
• Documentation
  • Added Terraform mirror setup instructions, including the HTTPS requirement, to the dashboard and configuration documentation.

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Walkthrough

The change adds Terraform and OpenTofu provider registry configuration and a network mirror endpoint. The server serves provider metadata and archives, with metadata and artifact caching and archive checksum verification.

Changes: Terraform/OpenTofu provider mirror

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Registry configuration internal/config/config.go, internal/config/config_test.go, config.example.yaml	Configuration accepts named Terraform registry URLs and validates hostnames and absolute URLs. The example documents the default registries and replacement behavior for configured entries.
Provider metadata and archive handling internal/handler/terraform.go, internal/handler/terraform_test.go, internal/handler/notfound_ecosystems_test.go	The handler serves provider version and platform documents and provider archives. Tests cover discovery, caching, checksum validation, missing resources, and invalid requests.
Server integration and mirror setup internal/server/server.go, internal/server/middleware.go, internal/server/middleware_test.go, internal/server/dashboard.go, internal/server/sources.go, internal/server/sources_test.go, README.md, docs/configuration.md	The server mounts the handler at /terraform, identifies Terraform routes and clients, and documents mirror setup and endpoints.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TerraformCLI
  participant TerraformHandler
  participant MetadataCache
  participant UpstreamRegistry
  participant ArtifactCache
  TerraformCLI->>TerraformHandler: Request provider metadata or archive
  TerraformHandler->>MetadataCache: Fetch registry metadata
  MetadataCache->>UpstreamRegistry: Request discovery and provider documents
  TerraformHandler->>ArtifactCache: Check for cached archive
  TerraformHandler->>UpstreamRegistry: Fetch archive and verify shasum
  TerraformHandler->>TerraformCLI: Return provider document or archive

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 6f198

This adds a Terraform/OpenTofu provider mirror with registry configuration, checksum-verified archives and documentation. Earlier review feedback has been addressed and no remaining blocking issues were found, so the change looks ready to merge after normal checks.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 6f198

The new mirror restricts registry selection, canonicalizes provider addresses for policy checks, and validates downloaded archive checksums. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Some outbound-network and streaming failure behavior remains incompletely verified, so the assessment is not minimal risk.

Retained concerns
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Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Callers able to reach the mirror can trigger outbound registry requests and shared cache writes for configured providers. The relevant exposure is the proxy deployment's egress and storage authority; the reviewed code does not establish deployment-specific network exposure or tenant isolation.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — Registry-produced discovery may select a different HTTP or HTTPS origin, and download_url is passed to the shared fetcher. This is delegated destination authority, not a demonstrated SSRF or credential leak: client-selected unconfigured hostnames are rejected, and production requests inherit the existing safe upstream client configuration.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Lowercasing aligns request, cache and denylist identities. The mixed-case denial test asserts rejection without upstream contact. Download metadata must contain a valid SHA-256 and nonempty URL. Archive cache hits validate against recorded integrity rather than first refreshing the registry checksum.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The public server marks requests for detached upstream fetching and ordinary GET cache-miss streaming. Shared fetching allows canceled waiters to leave independently and releases in-flight state on completion. Because streaming can precede storage completion, the handler-only checksum test does not by itself establish a production buffer-before-serve guarantee.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make delegated discovery/download destination policy explicit, allowing legitimate distribution hosts while preserving private-network and credential boundaries. Validate checksum-failure completion through the production streaming route, and distinguish verified-before-cache from verified-before-transmission guarantees.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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internal/handler/terraform.go: 1

296-314: Trivial · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Resolve providersURL once per {version}.json request.

serveVersion calls h.versions, which calls providersURL. It then runs h.download once per platform, and each call runs providersURL again. That is one extra discovery fetch per platform, so a provider such as hashicorp/aws triggers many repeated discovery requests.

cache_metadata defaults to false. With the default, each discovery fetch goes to the registry. The docs advise enabling cache_metadata, but the default configuration still amplifies upstream requests.

Resolve providersURL once in serveVersion. Pass it to download and versions.

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Review comment at @internal/handler/terraform.go around lines 296 - 314:
Update serveVersion to resolve providersURL once and pass it to both versions
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Review comments at @internal/handler/notfound_ecosystems_test.go:
- Around line 44-45: Update the Terraform case in the not-found test so
NewTerraformHandler uses a local fake registry for metadata requests instead of
reaching registry.terraform.io; keep the test’s expected 404 behavior unchanged.

Review comments at @internal/server/dashboard.go:
- Around line 603-608: Update the dashboard instructions in the `Instructions`
template to state that the network mirror URL must use the `https:` scheme and
that the proxy must be served over TLS. Keep the existing `baseURL`
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Review comments at @README.md:
- Around line 923-929: Update the README’s provider_installation network_mirror
example to use an HTTPS URL with a trailing slash, and explain that the proxy
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Review comments at @internal/handler/terraform.go:
- Around line 296-314: Update serveVersion to resolve providersURL once and pass
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Major · Scope the archive cache to the registry base URL · terraform.go:231-281

internal/handler/terraform.go:231-281
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Scope the archive cache to the registry base URL

If a hostname is remapped from registry A to registry B, the cache can serve A's archive without checking B's shasum. If B lists different bytes for the same version and platform, Terraform can reject the archive because it does not match B's advertised hash. Include the registry base URL in the artifact cache identity while preserving offline cache hits.

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Review comment at @internal/handler/terraform.go around lines 231 - 281:
Update the cache identity used by handleArchive’s checkCache and
getOrFetchArtifactFromURLWithCachePURLs calls to include the provider’s registry
base URL, using the same identity for lookup and storage. Resolve that base URL
from existing configuration without requiring a download-document request before
cache lookup, so offline cache hits remain available.

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[simonchrz]

@coderabbitai Fixed the outside-diff finding about the archive cache in 7eb97c1: the archive filename now carries the registry base URL's key, as the metadata cache keys do, so a remapped hostname fetches and checks the new registry's archive.

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@simonchrz I checked 7eb97c1. The archive cache lookup now uses a filename that includes the registry base URL key. The new test covers remapping a hostname to a registry with different archive bytes.

I did not run the test.

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@andrew A question on the PURL for cached provider archives. This PR uses pkg:generic/terraform-provider/{hostname}/{namespace}/{type}, since there's no Terraform type yet. package-url/purl-spec#889 proposes pkg:terraform/{namespace}/{name}, with the registry in a qualifier, for providers and modules alike. It's still open, and it doesn't say yet how a provider and a module with the same address are told apart. Would you rather keep pkg:generic until #889 lands, or use pkg:terraform as drafted now? Switching before this is merged is cheap.

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Thanks for this, the mirror documents and the checksum handling look right and the tests cover the paths I'd want. Two things before it goes in.

A deny rule can be bypassed by changing the case of the provider address. providerFromRequest in internal/handler/terraform.go lowercases the hostname but keeps the namespace and type as sent, and terraformName allows uppercase. Both public registries answer mixed-case addresses (/v1/providers/Hashicorp/Random/versions and the download document return 200), while denylist matching is case-sensitive for pkg:generic. So a rule for pkg:generic/terraform-provider/registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/random@3.6.0 does not stop GET /terraform/providers/registry.terraform.io/Hashicorp/Random/3.6.0/linux_amd64.zip, and that request also stores a second copy of the archive under a different cache identity.

Please lowercase the namespace and type in providerFromRequest, add a test that a denied version stays denied under a mixed-case path, and add a line to the denylist notes in docs/configuration.md giving the PURL form for a provider.

Service discovery is resolved once per platform. serveVersion calls h.versions and then h.download for each platform, and each of those calls providersURL. With the default cache_metadata: false every one is an upstream request, so a {version}.json for a version with N platforms costs up to 2N+2 registry requests where N+2 would do. Please resolve providersURL once in serveVersion and handleArchive and pass it into versions and download.

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@simonchrz on the PURL question: let's switch to pkg:terraform as drafted in package-url/purl-spec#889 rather than pkg:generic.

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@andrew All three are in 6f198d9.

• Case: providerFromRequest lowercases the namespace and type. A test denies hashicorp/random@3.6.0 and requests it as Hashicorp/Random: 403, no upstream request. A second test fetches both spellings and gets one cache entry.
• Discovery: serveIndex, serveVersion and handleArchive resolve providersURL once and pass it to versions and download. With cache_metadata off, a test counts 4 registry requests for a version with two platforms.
• PURL: archives are cached as pkg:terraform/{namespace}/{type}. README, the Terraform section and the denylist notes in docs/configuration.md give that form.

One decision in the PURL change that you may want differently: the cache PURL has no repository_url qualifier, for any registry. The denylist rejects qualifiers, and no artifact is cached under a qualified PURL today. So hashicorp/random is one package for registry.terraform.io and registry.opentofu.org, and an entry like pkg:terraform/hashicorp/random@3.6.0 denies it on both. The archives stay apart, because the archive filename carries the registry's key. If you'd rather have the qualifier for registries other than registry.terraform.io, as #889 describes, I'll add it.

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