In this article we explore the Terraform Registry API, which hosts information about Terraform providers, in particular the URLs in which the actual provider binaries are hosted. We then implement a client for that API in our Steampipe plugin, so the plugin auto-downloads whichever Terraform provider has been requested by the user, at boot time. This makes the experience of configuring a Terraform provider in Steampipe a lot closer to that of configuring it on Terraform itself
