terraform Error: building account: getting authenticated object ID: listing Service Principals: autorest.DetailedError

 

If you're getting the following error when running terraform plan, then you hit an issue with azurerm that is old and not supported anymore. The error is really confusing to start with. After I upgraded my azurerm 

Error: building account: getting authenticated object ID: listing Service Principals: autorest.DetailedError{Original:(*azure.RequestError)(0xc001ab65a0), PackageType:"graphrbac.ServicePrincipalsClient", Method:"List", StatusCode:403, Message:"Failure responding to request", ServiceError:[]uint8(nil), Response:(*http.Response)(0xc001ab6510)}

So you need to update 

terraform {
  required_providers {
    azurerm = {
      source  = "hashicorp/azurerm"
      version = "~> 4.0"  <-- newer version available 
    }
  }

  required_version = ">= 1.0.0"
}

provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
}