TFE provider - Data source tfe_team throws an Error: could not find team – HashiCorp Help Center

Introduction

Problem

Using the TFE provider data source tfe_team to get information about a specific team from Terraform Enterprise errors with:

Error: could not find team daniela-team
with module.base.module.data_admin_test.data.tfe_team.admin[0]
on .terraform/modules/base.data_admin_test/main.tf line 26, in data "tfe_team" "admin

The following Terraform code is an example of what can trigger this error:

terraform {
  required_providers {
    tfe = {
      source = "hashicorp/tfe"
      version = "0.50.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "tfe" {
  hostname = "xx.xxx.xx.101.nip.io"
}

data "tfe_team" "admin" {
  name         = "daniela-team"
  organization = "daniela-org"
}

Cause

A TFE token is not used

Overview of possible solutions

Solutions:

Set the token argument in the provider configuration. You can set the token argument in the provider configuration. Use an input variable for the token, as in the following example:

provider "tfe" {
  hostname = "xx.xxx.xx.101.nip.io"
  token    = var.token # team token
}


variable "token" {
type = string
description = "TFE token"
}

Set the TFE_TOKEN environment variable: The provider can read the TFE_TOKEN environment variable and the token stored there to authenticate.

Outcome

The information for the team can be retrieved from TFE without any errors.

Additional Information