To install Terraform, find the appropriate package for your system and download it.
Terraform is packaged as a zip archive. After downloading Terraform, unzip the package.
URI : https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
Install wget package to download files and install unzip to extract the files from zip files.
Ubuntu :
$ sudo apt-get install wget unzip -y
CentOS :
$ sudo yum install wget unzip -y
Download the terraform archive and extract the terraform binary.
$ export VERSION="0.11.10"
$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/${VERSION}/terraform_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip
$ unzip terraform_${VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip $ ls terraform terraform_0.11.10_linux_amd64.zip $ rm terraform terraform_0.11.10_linux_amd64.zip
Terraform runs as a single binary named terraform.
$ terraform Usage: terraform [-version] [-help] <command> [args] The available commands for execution are listed below. The most common, useful commands are shown first, followed by ....... .........
To make terraform accessible to everyone, move terraform binary to /usr/local/bin/.
$ sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/
Exit from the terminal and re-login to verify.
$ terraform -v
Terraform v0.11.10
Your version of Terraform is out of date! The latest version
is 0.11.11. You can update by downloading from www.terraform.io/downloads.html