Installing Terraform

PENDING CLEANUP

Windows §

1. Downloading Terraform First, I head over to the official Terraform website to grab the latest version. In the downloads section, I select the Windows_AMD64 option, since that matches my system’s architecture. Clicking the link initiates the download of a .zip file.

2. Extracting the Terraform Executable Once the download finishes, I find the .zip file in my Downloads folder. I right-click on it and choose Extract All..., which reveals the terraform.exe within. I decide to keep it simple and leave terraform.exe right there in the Downloads folder for now.

3. Setting Up the Environment Variable
   
   Add.Edit Environment Variables (Windows)

4. Testing the Terraform Command To check if everything’s working, I open a new Command Prompt window and type terraform --version.

Success

Linux §

From PART1_PROJECT_16

Update the system packages:

sudo apt update

Install the wget and unzip packages to download and extract the Terraform setup:

sudo apt-get install wget unzip -y

hector@hector-Laptop:~/Project16-17$ sudo wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.14.7/terraform_0.14.7_linux_amd64.zip #download terraform setup
 
hector@hector-Laptop:~/Project16-17$ ls #zip file downloaded
PBL  README.md  terraform_1.1.9_linux_amd64.zip
 
hector@hector-Laptop:~/Project16-17$ sudo unzip terraform_1.1.9_linux_amd64.zip #Extract the downloaded setup using unzip
Archive:  terraform_1.1.9_linux_amd64.zip
inflating: terraform
 
hector@hector-Laptop:~/Project16-17$ ls #terraform extracted
PBL  README.md  terraform  terraform_1.1.9_linux_amd64.zip
 
hector@hector-Laptop:~/Project16-17$ sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/ #moving extracted setup to /bin directory

Success

hector@hector-Laptop:~/Project16-17$ terraform -v #checking `version (not latest)
Terraform v1.1.9
on linux_amd64