Installing Terraform using a script on Windows

In this recipe, we will learn how to install Terraform on a Windows machine using a script that uses the Chocolatey software package manager.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you'll need to be using a Windows operating system and have Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/) installed, which is a Windows software package manager.

If you don't have Chocolatey installed, you can easily install it by following these steps:

1. Open a PowerShell terminal in administrator mode, as shown in the following screenshot:

2. Then, execute this following script in the terminal:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

The complete installation documentation for Chocolatey is available at https://chocolatey.org/install...