Terraform cannot plan a configuration until it has the code for every module that configuration calls. Installing modules is one of the jobs of terraform init, alongside initializing the backend and installing providers. You must run init whenever you add a module block, change a module's source or version, or clone a repository onto a fresh machine.
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