Allow provider aliases to begin with a number

[grimm26]

Terraform Version

v1.9.8

Use Cases

In our setup we use the https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/latest provider which needs an instance per "owner" (github org) and we match the alias to the owner name and we have automation that generates the provider definitions for this. We have some orgs that begin with numbers and this breaks the provider alias standard that we have.

Attempted Solutions

make exceptions to our automation and manually add providers with spelled out aliases like "eight_thing"

Proposal

Allow provider aliases to start with numbers.

References

No response

[jbardin]

Hi @grimm26,

Unfortunately provider aliases must be valid identifiers like any other referencable entity in Terraform, which means they cannot begin with a number. This is a common constraint in most languages which also include numbers in their syntax.