pre-generated providers

[arcreigh]

Is there a reason why Juniper does not provide or upload to terraform.io premade providers?
Many other vendors currently do this so I am curious if there is a technical limitation.

[aburston]

We are working on this idea, the problem is Juniper has many many yang files which result in a large number of providers.
I have just merged a change (provided by @chrismarget-j that will allow people to create their own registry. Hopefully down the road, once we have fixed some major scaling issues in the terraform provider it will enable users to create a large number of providers based on the versions of Junos they are using and the configuration knobs they actually use.

You can already follow the example in the readme to generate a provider for an XML configuration on a particular device version. But as you can imagine this would result in an n*m matrix of providers and I doubt hashicorp would be too keen on Juniper dumping gigabytes of providers into their registry. Hence we have added a registry you can create for yourself.