Glad you got it sorted.

Please ignore ^
The error occurred because I was assigning one of the backend.tfvars variables incorrectly with “:” instead of “=”

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Are you able to show your backend.tfvars file also?

Error loading backend config: 1 error(s) occurred:
Initializing the backend…

* terraform.backend: configuration cannot contain interpolations

The backend configuration is loaded by Terraform extremely early, before
the core of Terraform can be initialized. This is necessary because the backend
dictates the behavior of that core. The core is what handles interpolation
processing. Because of this, interpolations cannot be used in backend
configuration.

If you’d like to parameterize backend configuration, we recommend using
partial configuration with the “-backend-config” flag to “terraform init”.

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I know currently interpolation for terraform {backend “azurerm” {}} resources are not supported. Meaning, you simply cannot place a var.whatever variable inside backend. I am not doing this, but am doing exactly as the tutorial shows. Am I missing something? I have

main.tf
resource “azurerm_resource_group” “state-demo-secure” {
name = “state-demo”
location = “eastus”
}

and

provider “azurerm” {
version = “1.29.0”
subscription_id = “${var.azurerm_provider[“subscription_id”]}”
client_id = “${var.azurerm_provider[“client_id”]}”
client_secret = “${var.azurerm_provider[“client_secret”]}”
tenant_id = “${var.azurerm_provider[“tenant_id”]}”
}

with an associated providers.tfvars

If they use the backend.tfvars file they will be able to access the file too.