Want to play with Terraform on macOS ? https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/install-cli Plugins are called providers and are downloaded to .terraform directory: Running terraform plan reveals, image_id is missing. After updating terraform to 1.4.0 from the website, the docker provider is upgraded to 2.25 Create a plan, save it, apply it We can see docker container, running nginx: