Support upgrading provider versions

[repl-mike-roest]

What problem are you facing?

We have an existing workspace from a composition that used version 6.35.0 of the OCI terraform provider. We want to add features to that composition that require a V7 version of the provider. We updated our composition to the new version and now workspace reconciliation fails with

Error: Failed to resolve provider packages

Could not resolve provider oracle/oci: locked provider
registry.opentofu.org/oracle/oci 6.35.0 does not match configured version
constraint ~> 7.0; must use tofu init -upgrade to allow selection of new
versions

How could Upbound help solve your problem?

The opentofu provider should detect this scenario and do an tofu init --upgrade when required.

As a workaround we can manually shell into the provider pod and goto the workspace and run that to get the new provider version. But it would be nice to not requiere manual intervention.

[angelokurtis]

Hi @repl-mike-roest

You can handle this scenario by adding -upgrade=true to spec.forProvider.initArgs. That'll ensure tofu init picks up the new provider version during reconciliation.

There's a bit more detail in the docs here if helpful: /docs/monolith/Configuration.md#opentofu-cli-command-arguments