with a previously-saved plan file will now verify that the provider plugin packages used to create the plan fully match the ones used during apply, using the same checksum scheme that Terraform normally uses for the dependency lock file. Previously Terraform was checking consistency of plugins from a plan file using a legacy mechanism which covered only the main plugin executable, not any other files that might be distributed alongside in the plugin package.
This additional check should not affect typical plugins that conform to the expectation that a plugin package's contents are immutable once released, but may affect a hypothetical in-house plugin that intentionally modifies extra files in its package directory somehow between plan and apply. If you have such a plugin, you'll need to change its approach to store those files in some other location separate from the package directory. This is a minor compatibility break motivated by increasing the assurance that plugins have not been inadvertently or maliciously modified between plan and apply.
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In the infrastructure as code (IaC) space, one of the most useful tools to come out in the last several years is HashiCorp’s Terraform Windows. The ability to version infrastructure, automate the provisioning of resources, and execute across different cloud vendors is huge for any DevOps and automation workflows.
One use-case for Terraform is in CI/CD. Terraform allows you to:
- create a testing environment
- deploy an application
- run integration tests
- destroy the testing environment
All of the steps are performed automatically too. And no data center is required!
Prerequisites
This article is a walkthrough on getting Terraform Windows up and running. If you’d like to follow along, please be sure you have the following prerequisites in place.
- A Windows 10 device
- An AWS Account
- The AWS CLI installed and configured on that device. You can learn how to install it here and how to configure it here.
- (Optional) Visual Studio Code with the Terraform extension
Installing the Terraform Windows Application
To leverage the power of Terraform, you must first get it installed on your operating system of choice. In this article, I’m going to be focusing on Windows. But know that Terraform can run on other operating systems. If you’re not on Windows, take a look at the installation documentation.
The Hard Way
If you can’t use a package manager or you want to understand how the installation process works, you can install Terraform manually. You can install Terraform by downloading the binary and adding it to the system path environment variable. If this looks intimidating, I assure you there’s an easier way to do it you’ll learn in the next section.
- Download the appropriate version of Terraform from HashiCorp’s download page. In my case, it’s the Windows 64-bit version.
- Make a folder on your C:\ drive where you can put the Terraform executable. I prefer to place installers in a subfolder (e.g. C:\tools) where you can put binaries.
- After the the download finishes, go find it in File Explorer. Extract the zip file to the folder you created in step 2.
- Open your Start Menu and type in “environment” and the first thing that comes up should be Edit the System Environment Variables option. Click on that and you should see this window.

5. Click on Environment Variables… at the bottom and you’ll see this:

6. Under the bottom section where it says System Variables, find one called Path and click edit. You’ll then see a list of where to find the binaries that Windows might need for any given reason.
7. Click New and add the folder path where terraform.exe is located to the bottom of the list. It should look like this when you finish.

8. Click OK on each of the menus you’ve opened up until there’s no more left.
9. To make sure that Windows detects the new path, open a new CMD/PowerShell prompt and enter .
10. Verify the installation was successful by entering . If it returns a version, you’re good to go.
The Easy Way
Phew, that was a lot of work! That would be awful to do every time you had to install new software on your device. Let’s use a package manager instead. There are a few out package managers you can use to install Terraform on Windows. For Windows, my favorite is Chocolatey. It makes installing, removing and updating software as simple as a one-line command, and Terraform is no exception to that.
To install Terraform with Chocolatey, do the following steps:
- Open a CMD/PowerShell prompt as an administrator and install Chocolatey using the command from their install page.
- Once that is complete, run . If you like, you can also put on the end to auto-agree to installing it on your device.
After that command runs, you will get something like this:
3. Verify the installation was successful by entering .
The Linux Way
I can almost hear what you’re thinking. Wait a minute Chris, didn’t you say this was going to cover installing Terraform on Windows?
Yes, and it still is. But one of the features on Windows 10 is the Windows for Linux Subsystem, or WSL. This allows you to run Linux commands on Windows.
- Install WSL. I’m not going to go in depth on how to install and set up WSL here, but if you want to follow along and don’t have it set up already. A TechSnips snip I did on this topic can be found below.
2. In your WSL shell, run You’ll need this to extract the Terraform binaries later.
3. Download Terraform by running . Remember to replace the version and architecture with the one that best fits your device. You can find the full list of Terraform Releases here.
4. Run to unzip the contents of the zip into a folder called terraform.
5. Once the ZIP file is uncompressed, you’ll need to move it somewhere accessible by the system path. Fortunately, Linux has a folder that users can add binaries to by default. Move the Terraform binary there by running . The /usr/local/bin folder is already set in your system path.
6. Verify the installation was successful by running .
Automating an AWS Terraform EC2 Instance
Now that you have installed Terraform, you can begin using it. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate building with a simple AWS Terraform EC2 instance. But know Terraform can provision hundreds of different types of infrastructure.
To get started, you’ll first need a directory to run the Terraform EC2 scripts from. It’s important to have a separate directory for each environment. At the time I’m writing this, Terraform doesn’t have a way to filter what it runs. It will run every script in your current working directory.
Setting Up a TF Script
- In your cmd or PowerShell console ran as administrator, run then
- Once you have a directory, you’ll need a Terraform script. Below is an example of one you can use. This is a typical Terraform script using the AWS provider to create an AWS instance resource.
If you’d like the entire script, copy it below. If you want to understand what this script is doing, read on below.
3. Save the script above as in your working directory.
Understanding TF Scripts
Before you go any further, look at the block below and what it’s declaring.
This block tells Terraform EC2 what provider to use. There are providers for all the major cloud vendors, as well as some on-prem vendors. If you’re more advanced and you know how to write Golang, you can also write your own provider.
This block tells Terraform to use the AWS provider and access keys in the file under the profile name . This file gets created when you setup the AWS CLI with command as stated in the prerequisites.
It’s also worth noting that is shorthand for the current user’s directory. If you’re coming from a Windows background, this is equal to as or . But Terraform does not support that notation at the time of writing.
The next block below describes a Terraform EC2 Instance, and what to build it with. If you take a look at the Terraform documentation for aws_instance, you can see some parameters are required; some are optional. In this case, the required parameters are the AMI ID () for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and for the instance type.
By passing a tag block with the key and the value , this tag will also get assigned to the instance that gets created. This is optional.
Building the AWS Terraform EC2 Instance: Testing
Now that the script is set up, call it by running from your working directory. This will pull down all the dependencies and provider into a folder named . If all goes well, you should get something like this:
Before you make any changes, Terraform EC2 allows you to see what will be created by running . Here is what that will output:
Building the AWS EC2 Instance: Creating
Now you’re ready to run it for yourself by running . Below you will see output like , but with an added prompt to confirm that you actually want to apply these changes.
Once you type ‘yes’, Terraform EC2 will start provisioning the Terraform EC2 instance by calling the AWS APIs with the access key in your credentials file. This may take some time. Once finished, you’ll see something like below:
Destroying the AWS EC2 Instance
Once you’re done with the test environment, you can destroy the instance.
In your cmd/PowerShell console, type . Like the command, you’ll see a list of resources Terraform is going to destroy then a prompt before actually destroying them.
Once you type yes, Terraform EC2 will start destroying the instance and confirm when it’s finished.
Summary
Now you know the many different ways to install and run Terraform on Windows. In this post, I covered a single-use case of configuring an AWS Terraform EC2 instance. Through that demonstration, you learned how to understand and interpret a Terraform file and what output Terraform returns when running. You then created and destroyed the instance, all from your cmd/PowerShell console.
By now, you should have a better understanding of how Terraform works, and how to get started with it in your own environment. Happy Terraforming!
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To use Terraform you will need to install it. HashiCorp distributes Terraform as a binary package. You can also install Terraform using popular package managers.
»Install Terraform
Retrieve the binary by downloading a pre-compiled binary or compiling it from source.
To install Terraform, find the appropriate package for your system and download it as a zip archive.
After downloading Terraform, unzip the package. Terraform runs as a single binary named . Any other files in the package can be safely removed and Terraform will still function.
Finally, make sure that the binary is available on your . This process will differ depending on your operating system.
Print a colon-separated list of locations in your .
Move the Terraform binary to one of the listed locations. This command assumes that the binary is currently in your downloads folder and that your includes , but you can customize it if your locations are different.
For more detail about adding binaries to your path, see this Stack Overflow article.
»Verify the installation
Verify that the installation worked by opening a new terminal session and listing Terraform's available subcommands.
Add any subcommand to to learn more about what it does and available options.
»Troubleshoot
If you get an error that could not be found, your environment variable was not set up properly. Please go back and ensure that your variable contains the directory where Terraform was installed.
»Enable tab completion
If you use either Bash or Zsh, you can enable tab completion for Terraform commands. To enable autocomplete, first ensure that a config file exists for your chosen shell.
Then install the autocomplete package.
Once the autocomplete support is installed, you will need to restart your shell.
»Quick start tutorial
Now that you've installed Terraform, you can provision an NGINX server in less than a minute using Docker on Mac, Windows, or Linux. You can also follow the rest of this tutorial in your web browser.
Click on the tab(s) below relevant to your operating system.
Download Docker Desktop for Mac.
After you install Terraform and Docker on your local machine, start Docker Desktop.
Create a directory named .
Then, navigate into it.
Paste the following Terraform configuration into a file and name it .
Initialize the project, which downloads a plugin that allows Terraform to interact with Docker.
Provision the NGINX server container with . When Terraform asks you to confirm type and press .
Verify the existence of the NGINX container by visiting localhost:8000 in your web browser or running to see the container.
To stop the container, run .
You've now provisioned and destroyed an NGINX webserver with Terraform.
»Next Steps
Next, you will create real infrastructure in the cloud of your choice.
Install Terraform on Mac, Windows & Ubuntu
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp. It enables the users to define and provision a data center infrastructure of different cloud providers using a high-level configuration language known as Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL), or optionally JSON but first, we need to install Terraform. It is supported by many operating systems.
This blog post covers the basic installation of terraform on different Operating Systems and a very powerful text editor given below:
Install Terraform on Windows ^
There are a couple of steps you need to perform to install this on your Windows machine:
- Download the terraform Executable File (.exe) by visiting here and select 32-bit or 64-bit according to your machine.
- Extract the downloaded .zip folder containing the terraform executable file and copy the file.
- Create a new Terraform directory and paste the file, this directory can be anywhere on your machine. I would recommend pasting in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Terraform”.
- Copy the path of the executable file, in my case it is “C:\Program Files (x86)\Terraform”.
- Now, we need to set an environment variable that points to this path. Search environment in the windows search bar and select “Edit the system environment variables“.
- Click on “Environment Variables…“, select “Path” in the pop-up and click on “Edit“.
- Paste the copied path by clicking on New and then click OK
- Done!! Now to check if it is installed open command prompt and type terraform -v and you will get the current version as the output.
This completes the terraform installation on Windows.
Also check: Types of Terraform Variables
Install Terraform on macOS ^
To install terraform Mac OS we will first install Homebrew using the below command:
% /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"Once Homebrew is installed, install terraform using the below command:
% brew install terraformTo confirm the installation, type terraform -v and you will get the current version as the output.
Check Out: Our blog post on Terraform.
Install Terraform on Linux ^
- Download the terraform Zip File by visiting here and select 32-bit or 64-bit according to your machine.
- Unzip the folder using the command (make sure you are in the correct directory): $ unzip terraform_0.12.26_linux_amd64.zip (file name may change according to the newer versions).
- Move the extracted terraform file to /usr/local/bin/ using the command: $ sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin /
- Confirm the file has been moved and terraform has been installed using the command: $ terraform -v (if it gives the current version as output then the installation is successful).
Check Out: Our blog post on Terraform Cheat Sheet.
Installing Terraform Extension on Visual Studio Code ^
This is an Optional step in Installing Terraform. There are many text editors in the market, we are going to choose Visual Studio Code for this as it is a very powerful text editor and supports all the platforms.
To download the Visual Studio Code, click here.
Once you have downloaded the visual studio code, open it and go to extension and search for terraform and Install it.
Check Out: Our blog post on Terraform Create VM.
After it has been installed, to verify the installation open Terminal and type:
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How To Install Terraform on Windows 10 or 8 or 7-DecodingDevOps
terraform is infrastructure as code tool. With terraform scripts we can automate the configuration of our infrastructure. in this tutorial i will show you how to install terraform on windows 10 or 8 or 7. to install terraform on windows 10 or 8 or 7 follow below steps.
- download terraform zip package from the official terraform website
- unzip the terrafrom package
- configure environment variable for terrafrom
Download Terraform
download the terraform from official terraform website https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
you can see the windows 32 bit and 64 bit source files. download depends on your system here i am downloading 64 bit terraform. it will be downloaded as zip file.
Unzip the terraform package
extract the downloaded zip file. Here i downloaded the terraform zip file in C:\Users\devops\Downloads\. I extrated the zip file, after extracting the zip file you can see terraform.exe file in C:\Users\devops\Downloads\terraform_0.12.23_windows_amd64
This is the workspace path of your tarraform in your system or you can say the path of terraform.exe.
Configure environment variables for terraform
This PC(MyComputer)—>properties —>advanced system settings–>environment variables—>system variables—>path–edit–>new
in your windows 10 or 8 or 7 right click on This PC(MyComputer)—>properties —>advanced system settings. Here you can see environment variables click on it here you can see user variables and system variables. In system variables you can see “path” select path and click on edit and add path of terraform i.e C:\Users\devops\Downloads\terraform_0.12.23_windows_amd64
That’s it we have successfully configured terraform on windows 10 or 8 or 7.
Verify terraform version
using terraform version command you can see the terraform version. open command prompt in your system and enter terraform version command. it will give you the terraform version.
C:\Windows\system32>terraform version Terraform v0.12.23List Terraform Commands
To list the terraform commands open command prompt and enter terraform and hit enter. it will list all terraform commands.
Create Ec2 Instance using terraform
lets check this article on How to create ec2 instance using terraform
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Write, Plan, Apply
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Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.
Get started
Deliver Infrastructure as Code
Write
Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files. HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) allows for concise descriptions of resources using blocks, arguments, and expressions.
Plan
Run to check whether the execution plan for a configuration matches your expectations before provisioning or changing infrastructure.
Apply
Apply changes to hundreds of cloud providers with to reach the desired state of the configuration.
Features
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- Write declarative config files
Define infrastructure as code to manage the full lifecycle — create new resources, manage existing ones, and destroy those no longer needed.
variable "ami_id" {type= string description="AMI ID to use"default="ami-09d95fab7fff3776c"}variable "instance_type" {type= string description="Instance type to use"default="t3.micro"}variable "availability_zone" {type= string description="Availability Zone to use"default="us-east-1a"} - Installable modules
Automatically download and install community or partner modules from the registry with
$terraform initInitializing the backend...Initializing provider plugins...- Finding hashicorp/local versions matching "~> 1.4.0"...- Finding hashicorp/http versions matching "1.2.0"...- Finding hashicorp/aws versions matching "~> 2.70"...- Finding hashicorp/tls versions matching "~> 2.1"...- Installing hashicorp/local v1.4.0...- Installed hashicorp/local v1.4.0 (signed by HashiCorp)- Installing hashicorp/http v1.2.0...- Installed hashicorp/http v1.2.0 (signed by HashiCorp)- Installing hashicorp/aws v2.70.0...- Installed hashicorp/aws v2.70.0 (signed by HashiCorp)- Installing hashicorp/tls v2.2.0...- Installed hashicorp/tls v2.2.0 (signed by HashiCorp)Terraform has been successfully initialized!You may now begin working with Terraform. Try running "terraform plan" to seeany changes that are required for your infrastructure. All Terraform commandsshould now work.If you ever set or change modules or backend configuration for Terraform,rerun this command to reinitialize your working directory. If you forget, othercommands will detect it and remind you to do so if necessary. - Plan and predict changes
Terraform allows operators to safely and predictably make changes to infrastructure, with clearly mapped resource dependencies and separation of plan and apply.
$terraform planRefreshing Terraform state in-memory prior to plan...The refreshed state will be used to calculate this plan, but will not bepersisted to local or remote state storage.------------------------------------------------------------------------An execution plan has been generated and is shown below.Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols: + createTerraform will perform the following actions: # aws_ebs_volume.iac_in_action will be created + resource "aws_ebs_volume" "iac_in_action" { + arn = (known after apply) + availability_zone = "us-east-1a" + encrypted = (known after apply) + id = (known after apply) + iops = 1000 + kms_key_id = (known after apply) + size = 100 + snapshot_id = (known after apply) + tags = { + "Name" = "Terraform-managed EBS Volume" } + type = "io1" }Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy. - Dependency graphing
Easily generate , refresh state, and more, with Terraform config dependency graphing.
- State management
Map real world resources to your configuration, keep track of metadata, and improve performance for large infrastructures.
{"version":4,"terraform_version":"0.13.5","serial":26,"lineage":"3c255742-debd-2c33-ff5f-53a5181f36b2","outputs":{},"resources":[]} - Provision infrastructure in familiar languages
CDK for Terraform (experimental) allows you to define infrastructure code in TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go, using the 1000+ existing Terraform providers and HCL Terraform modules.
- Terraform Registry with 1000+ providers
Choose from an array of providers for your cloud platforms and services, add them to your configuration, then use their resources to provision infrastructure.
Define infrastructure as code to manage the full lifecycle — create new resources, manage existing ones, and destroy those no longer needed.
Learn moreAutomatically download and install community or partner modules from the registry with
Learn moreTerraform allows operators to safely and predictably make changes to infrastructure, with clearly mapped resource dependencies and separation of plan and apply.
Learn moreEasily generate , refresh state, and more, with Terraform config dependency graphing.
Learn moreMap real world resources to your configuration, keep track of metadata, and improve performance for large infrastructures.
Learn moreCDK for Terraform (experimental) allows you to define infrastructure code in TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and Go, using the 1000+ existing Terraform providers and HCL Terraform modules.
Learn moreChoose from an array of providers for your cloud platforms and services, add them to your configuration, then use their resources to provision infrastructure.
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Why Terraform
Codify your application infrastructure
Reduce human error and increase automation by provisioning infrastructure as code.
Manage infrastructure across clouds
Provision infrastructure across 300+ public clouds and services using a single workflow.
Create reproducible infrastructure
Provision consistent testing, staging, and production environments with the same configuration.
How Terraform Works
Terraform allows infrastructure to be expressed as code in a simple, human readable language called HCL (HashiCorp Configuration Language). It reads configuration files and provides an execution plan of changes, which can be reviewed for safety and then applied and provisioned.
Extensible providers allow Terraform to manage a broad range of resources, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and hardware services.
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