Install terraform

expected time	requirements
60 minutes	a computer

Goal: Have terraform installed.

Explanation

Terraform is a program that needs to be installed. It’s quite simple, but required.

The Terraform CLI is a simple binary, no services/servers/daemon, no specific users, etc.

This depends a bit on the environment you’re working in.

There are repositories for Linux (apt, dnf and yum).
Chocolatey works too.
You can download the binary.
To manage Azure infrastructure, you also need azure-cli. Follow this guide for Windows computers.

Have a look at this playground repository that can be used to spin up machine to try terraform on.

You first need to install terraform. Identical for all providers:

To verify that you are done, please enter this command:

terraform --version