This guide will walk you through the steps to install Terraform on Ubuntu / Debian / CentOS / Fedora / Arch Linux system. Terraform is a cloud-agnostic Infrastructure automation tool used to manage cloud and on-premise resources. With it you can build, change, and version infrastructure deployed on popular service providers.

How to Install Terraform on Linux

Terraform is distributed as a tarball on Github. Check the latest release on Terraform releases page before downloading below.

export TER_VER="0.12.18"
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/${TER_VER}/terraform_${TER_VER}_linux_amd64.zip

Once the archive is downloaded, extract and move terraform binary file to the /usr/local/bin directory.

$ unzip terraform_${TER_VER}_linux_amd64.zip
Archive:  terraform_0.12.18_linux_amd64.zip
 inflating: terraform

$ sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/

This will make the tool accessible to all user accounts. 

$ which terraform
/usr/local/bin/terraform

Check the version of Terraform installed 

$ terraform -v
Terraform v0.12.18

To update Terraform on Linux, download the latest release and use the same process to extract and move binary file to location in your PATH.

Also check:

How to Provision VMs on KVM with Terraform

How To Provision VMs on oVirt / RHEV with Terraform

Deploy VM Instances on Hetzner Cloud with Terraform

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