Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool that allows users to manage, provision and maintain infrastructure as code. Terraform is an open source tool, and in this tutorial, we will follow a few simple steps to install it on a Debian-based Linux distribution.
Before we install Terraform, we need to ensure our system meets certain requirements:
We will use curl to download Terraform from its official website. To install curl, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt install curl
Now that we have installed curl, we can proceed to download Terraform using the command below:
curl -O https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.14.7/terraform_0.14.7_linux_amd64.zip
This command downloads the latest stable version of Terraform at the time of writing this tutorial. You can find the latest version of Terraform on their official website.
To unzip the Terraform file, we need to have unzip tool installed. To install it, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install unzip
Now that we have downloaded terraform, we need to unzip the file using the following command:
unzip terraform_0.14.7_linux_amd64.zip
After the file has been unzipped, move the binary to your preferred location. For this tutorial, we will move it to /usr/local/bin. Move the Terraform binary using:
sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/
To verify if Terraform was installed properly, run the following command:
terraform --version
This command should output the installed version of Terraform.
You have now successfully installed Terraform on your Debian-based Linux distribution. You can now use Terraform to manage your infrastructure as code by writing declarative configuration files.
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