Confusing error message about subscription_id

[mikhailshilkov]

Describe what happened

6.x versions of the provider now require setting an explicit subscriptionId configuration. However, if I don't set it, I get the following error

error: 1 error occurred:
    	* `subscription_id` is a required provider property when performing a plan/apply operation

Notice that this is likely a Terraform error:

• subscription_id is not the correct name of the parameter
• plan/apply operation are not the terms Pulumi uses

Please change the error message to be Pulumi-specific. It seems important given the potential number of users that hit this during upgrades.

Sample program

Any Azure Classic program with 6.0 or later

Log output

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Affected Resource(s)

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Output of pulumi about

pulumi-azure 6.2.0

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[danielrbradley]

Yup, makes sense 👍

[kraakevik]

Is this a bug in terms of what the default provider is passing down to TF, or am I now required to either create a custom provider or set the config option azure:subscriptionId?

Method 1:

const subscriptionId = azure.authorization.getClientConfigOutput().subscriptionId
let azureClassicProvider = new azure_classic.Provider("Azure classic provider", {subscriptionId: subscriptionId})

Method 2:

config:
  azure:subscriptionId: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000

Since everything else is inferred from the current context, I feel like the subscriptionId should also be passed down by default? Am I missing something?

[mikhailshilkov]

@kraakevik I believe this is by design: https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure/v6-migration/#subscription-id-is-now-mandatory