Download Terraform 11.11 For Macos

The official MacOS builds of Terraform CLI are no longer compatible with Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite; Terraform now requires at least Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan. Terraform 0.13 is the last major release that will support 10.11 El Capitan, so if you are upgrading your OS we recommend upgrading to Mac OS.

Terraform 0.11

Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on second edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for Terraform version 0.12 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running.
Gruntwork cofounder Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman walks you through code examples that demonstrate Terraform’s simple, declarative programming language for deploying and managing infrastructure with a few commands. Veteran sysadmins, DevOps engineers, and novice developers will quickly go from Terraform basics to running a full stack that can support a massive amount of traffic and a large team of developers.
Explore changes from Terraform 0.9 through 0.12, including backends, workspaces, and first-class expressions
Learn how to write production-grade Terraform modules
Dive into manual and automated testing for Terraform code
Compare Terraform to Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Salt Stack
Deploy server clusters, load balancers, and databases
Use Terraform to manage the state of your infrastructure
Create reusable infrastructure with Terraform modules
Use advanced Terraform syntax to achieve zero-downtime deployment

Terraform is distributed as a binary package for all supported platforms and architectures. Older versions are avaliable here.

Installing Terraform is a relatively trivial affair. Simply head over to Terraform select your operating system and download the corresponding zip file. Once downloaded extract the file to a convienient location on your computer and add to your path.

Terraform version history is located here.

Install Terraform on Linux

Method 1

The easiest way to install Terraform on Linux is download the file using wget then unzip the file and then move to /usr/local/bin/.

Download Terraform for Linux.

You may first need to install unzip.

CentOS.

Ubuntu.

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The unzip Terraform and move to path.

Method 2

Or you can download and extract to a location not in your path and add it.Here I download Terraform to my Downloads folder, extracted the zip file, moved it to /home/terraform/Documents/terraform and then updated the PATH environment variable pointing it to Terraform.

Unzip Terraform.

0.11

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Move to chosen location.

Macos

And add to path.

Verify Terraform is installed and working correctly.

Success!

Install Terraform on Mac OS

The easiest way to install Terraform on Mac is to use Homebrew.

Install Terraform on Windows

The easiest way to install Terraform on Windows is to download the zip file, extract the terrafrom.exe file and move it to c:windowssystem32

If you want to store it somewhere else use the instructions below.

Here I created a folder called terraform in my C: then extracted the zip file. After that I updated the PATH environment variable pointing it to Terraform.

I then used 7-zip to extract the terraform.exe to c:terraform and add c:terraform to my path.

Then to test

Terraform 0.11.14

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