Install Terraform On Windows 10

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In this blog post, I will show you how to install Terrafrom on a Windows 10 machine.

About Terraform

Terraform is an open source multi cloud Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) tool.

Important: It is highly recommended you install Terraform on Windows 10 using Chocolatey.

Note: To install Terraform on Linux visit this post.

Using Terraform we can deploy, modify and delete workloads in Azure, AWS and GCP.

The key benefit of Terraform is automation and reusability of code to provision and de-provison resources.

Download and Save

To download Terraform, go to the website below and download the windows vewrsion.

https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

Save the file.

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Unzip the file to c:\terraform.

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Below you can see the Terraform application.

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Add to PATH

For Terraform to work, we need to add the path below to the Windows PATH.

c:\terraform

Open Control Panel -> click on Systems -> Click on Advanced tab.

From the Advanced menu, click on Environment Variables

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From the User variables section, Click on Path

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Add the following path

c:\terraform
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Restart you command line tools or VS code and type

terraform
PS C: Repo> terraform Usage: terraform [ -version] [ -help] <command> [args] The available commands for execution are listed below. The most camion, 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. Conunon commands : apply console destroy graph import init login logout output plan Builds or changes infrastructure Interactive console for Terraform interpolations Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure Workspace management Rewrites config files to canonical format Download and install modules for the configuration Create a visual graph of Terraform resources Import existing infrastructure into Terraform Initialize a Terraform working directory Obtain and save credentials for a remote host Remove locally-stored credentials for a remote host Read an output from a state file Generate and show an execution plan

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