You know when’s the most annoying time to see a terraform version error?

When you are trying to terraform import a bunch of orphaned resources that didn’t successfully delete during CRUD cause of a bug in a custom module.

Error: Error loading state:
    Remote workspace Terraform version "1.4.6" does not match local Terraform version...

…

SREs are probably laughing at us for not using direnv; but hey, why do I even need to worry about matching versions when I’m using remote workspace mode with Terraform Cloud? Don’t have to match versions with apply and plan…

anways, here’s the quick fix.

  • If you want version 1.4.6
brew uninstall terraform # I assume you are civilised
brew install tfenv
tfenv install 1.4.6
tfenv use 1.4.6
terraform --version # trust but validate
  • If you want to switch to another verison
tfenv install 1.5.4
tfenv use 1.5.4
terraform --version