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Install Terraform on macOS

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This article is for those looking for a detailed and straightforward guide on installing Terraform on macOS.

Terraform is HashiCorpโ€™s infrastructure as a code tool. It lets you define resources and infrastructure in human-readable, declarative configuration files, and manages your infrastructureโ€™s lifecycle. Using Terraform has several advantages over manually managing your infrastructure.

IMPORTANT

In this guide, we will consider the case when you already have the Homebrew package manager installed.

To install Homebrew, you can use the command:

Terminal window
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
NOTE

This guide walks you through connecting to a server with the iTerm2 terminal emulator on macOS.

We connect the repository with formulas for Homebrew using the command:

Terminal window
brew tap hashicorp/tap

Install Terraform on macOS - Step 1

Run the Terraform installation with the command:

Terminal window
brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform

Install Terraform on macOS - Step 2

Next, you can see the installed version of Terraform using the command:

Terminal window
terraform -version

Install Terraform on macOS - Step 3

Everything is ready to use Terraform.

Install Terraform on macOS - Step 4

You can read more about how to configure AWS CLI in my guide Configure AWS CLI.


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Install Terraform on macOS
https://www.heyvaldemar.com/install-terraform-on-macos/
Author
Vladimir Mikhalev
Published at
2022-11-08
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0