Install Terraform

Install Terraform

To use Terraform, you will need to install it (You can install Terraform according to the instructions at the Terrafrom homepage or you can install it according to our article below).

HashiCorp phân phối Terraform dưới dạng binary package. Bạn cũng có thể cài đặt Terraform bằng các trình quản lý gói phổ biến.

Step 1: Install Terraform

Step 1.1: Retrieve TERRAFORM binary by downloading Pre-complied binary or Compile from source follow the instructions below:

Pre-complied binary

To install TERRAFORM, find the appropriate package for your system and download it as a zip file.

After downloading Terraform, unzip the package. Terraform runs as a binary terrain uniquely named TERRAFORM. Any other files in the package can be safely deleted and Terraform will still work.

Finally, make sure that your TERRAFORM binary is available on your PATH. This process will vary depending on your operating system.

Pre-complied binary

Để biên dịch tệp nhị phân Terraform từ nguồn, hãy sao chép kho lưu trữ HashiCorp Terraform.

git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git

Điều hướng đến thư mục mới.

cd terraform

Sau đó, biên dịch binary. Lệnh này sẽ biên dịch tệp binary và lưu trữ nó trong $GOPATH/bin/terraform.

go install

Cuối cùng, đảm bảo rằng TERRAFORM binary có sẵn trên PATH của bạn. Quá trình này sẽ khác nhau tùy thuộc vào hệ điều hành của bạn.

To compile the Terraform binary from source, clone the HashiCorp Terraform.

git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform.git

Navigate to the new folder.

cd terraform

Then compile binary. This command will compile the binary and store it in $GOPATH/bin/terraform.

go install

Finally, make sure that TERRAFORM binary is available on your . This process will vary depending on your operating system.

Step 1.2: Install on Mac or Linux:

Print a colon-separated list of locations in your PATH.

echo $PATH

Move the TERRAFORM binary to one of the listed locations. This command assumes that the binary is present in your download directory and that your PATH includes /usr/local/bin, but you can customize it if your location is different.

sudo ~/Downloads/terraform /usr/local/bin/

For more details on adding binaries to your binary paths, check out this Stack Overflow article.

Step 1.2: Install on Windows

This Stack Overflow article contains instructions for setting PATH on Windows through the user interface.

Xác minh cài đặt

Verify that the installation worked by opening a new terminal session and listing the available Terraform subcommands.

terraform -helpUsage: terraform [-version] [-help] <command> [args] The available commands for execution are listed below.The most common, useful commands are shown first, followed byless common or more advanced commands. If you're just gettingstarted with Terraform, stick with the common commands. For theother commands, please read the help and docs before usage.#...

Add any subcommands to TERRAFORM -HELP to learn more about what this command does and the options available.

terraform -help plan

Troubleshoot

If you get an error that the terrain cannot be found, your PATH environment variable is not set up properly. Please go back and make sure your PATH variable contains the Terraform installation directory.

Turn on Tab completion

If you use Bash or Zsh, you can enable tab completion for Terraform commands. To enable autocomplete, first make sure that a configuration file exists for your chosen shell.

Bash

touch ~/.bashrc

Zsh

touch ~/.zshrc

Then install the autocomplete package.

terraform -install-autocomplete

Once autocomplete support is installed, you will need to restart your shell.

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Quick Start

Now that you have Terraform installed, 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.

Step 1: Click the tab(s) below relevant to your operating system.

Docker Desktop for Mac

Download Docker Desktop for Mac

After you install Terraform and Docker on your local machine, start Docker Desktop.

open -a Docker

Docker Desktop for Window

To run Docker on your Windows 10 machine, you must use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). Download and install WSL2 before continuing.

Download Docker Desktop for Windows.

After you install Terraform and Docker on your local machine, start Docker Desktop by searching for Docker from your Start Menu and selecting Docker Desktop in the search results. As long as the whale icon in the status bar remains stable, Docker Desktop is active and accessible from any terminal window.

For more information about Docker Desktop for Windows requirements, visit the Docker documentation.

Docker Engine for Linux

To follow this tutorial on Linux, first install the Docker Engine for your distro.

Step 2: Create a folder named learn-terraform-docker-container.

mkdir learn-terraform-docker-container

This working directory contains configuration files that you write to describe the infrastructure you want Terraform to create and manage. When you initialize and apply the configuration here, Terraform uses this directory to store required plugins, modules (pre-written configurations), and information about the actual infrastructure it has created.

Step 3: Navigate to the working directory.

cd learn-terraform-docker-container

In the working directory, create a file named main.tf and paste the Terraform configuration (Server, Container, LB) after that.