What is Terraform? Terraform is an Infrastructure provisioning tool. This supports multiple clouds and currently, I am dabbling with it on Amazon Cloud (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP), Azure and Alibaba Cloud (Alicloud)
So how do you set up Terraform? Pretty simple – just go to https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html and download the version you want to work with! It’s that simple!
I installed Terraform on my Ubuntu VM running on Virtualbox in my Mac Pro (gives me a secure test environment and a lab I can separate out from my main workspace) but then, you can just as easily install it on your Mac, Windows or Linux machine!
Installation is pretty simple for the Ubuntu – please check the documentation for your version or OS but I installed the Terraform 0.11.11. Steps I used
Get the file
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.11/terraform_0.11.11_linux_amd64.zip
Unzip the file
unzip terraform_0.11.11_linux_amd64.zip
Install
#sudo install terraform /usr/local/bin/
done 🙂
Now check the install!
$ terraform Usage: terraform [-version] [-help] <command> [args] The available commands for execution are listed below. The most common, useful commands are shown first, followed by less common or more advanced commands. If you're just getting started with Terraform, stick with the common commands. For the other commands, please read the help and docs before usage. Common commands: apply Builds or changes infrastructure console Interactive console for Terraform interpolations destroy Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure env Workspace management fmt Rewrites config files to canonical format get Download and install modules for the configuration graph Create a visual graph of Terraform resources import Import existing infrastructure into Terraform init Initialize a Terraform working directory output Read an output from a state file plan Generate and show an execution plan providers Prints a tree of the providers used in the configuration push Upload this Terraform module to Atlas to run refresh Update local state file against real resources show Inspect Terraform state or plan taint Manually mark a resource for recreation untaint Manually unmark a resource as tainted validate Validates the Terraform files version Prints the Terraform version workspace Workspace management All other commands: debug Debug output management (experimental) force-unlock Manually unlock the terraform state state Advanced state management
That’s It!
Simple, straightforward and installed!
