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No IDE Autocomplete for Private Terraform Modules: A Developer Experience Gap
A platform engineer discovers that terraform-ls only queries the public registry, leaving private Terraform modules without IDE autocomplete or hover documentation. The team's migration to versioned modules improved governance but worsened developer experience. The author seeks community solutions for this gap in tooling.
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This highlights a persistent blind spot in infrastructure tooling: developer experience for private modules lags far behind public registries, and the community has yet to prioritize a fix.
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