Downloading and installing Terraform manually

In this recipe, we will learn how to download and install Terraform on a local machine under a Windows operating system.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, the only prerequisite is that you're on a Windows operating system.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. Open Windows File Explorer. Choose a location and create a folder called Terraform. We will use this to store the Terraform binary; for example, C:/Terraform.
2. Launch a web browser and go to https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html.
3. Scroll down the page until you reach the package for Windows:

4. Click on the 64-bit link, which targets the Terraform ZIP package for the Windows 64-bit operating system. The package will be downloaded locally.
5. Unzip the content of the downloaded ZIP file into the Terraform folder that we created in step 1:

The last thing we need to do to install Terraform is configure the Path environment variable by adding the path of the Terraform...