Terraform-provider-cloudflare: invalid value for api_key (API key must only contain characters 0-9 and a-f (all lowercased))

[IanMoroney]

Terraform version

Terraform v0.13.0

• provider registry.terraform.io/cloudflare/cloudflare v2.12.0
  

Affected resource(s)

Terraform configuration files

provider "cloudflare" {
  version    = "2.12.0"
  email      = "email"
  api_key    = "api key with lowercase, numbers and uppercase (we have no control over the value of the api key)"
  account_id = "account id"
}

Expected behavior

Cloudflare accepts the API key that it itself generated on the web portal.

Actual behavior

The Cloudflare Terraform provider rejects the API key

Steps to reproduce

Create any API key with lowercase, uppercase and numbers in it (i have also seen underscores in them)
add it to your providers config
run a terraform plan

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[jacobbednarz]

By the sounds of things, you're using an API _token_ not API _key_. Check out the documentation at https://registry.terraform.io/providers/cloudflare/cloudflare/latest/docs#api_token for usage details.