Downloading and installing Terraform on Windows manually

In this recipe, we will learn how to download and install Terraform on a local machine running 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://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/downloads.
3. Click on the Windows tab and then click on the Amd64 link, which targets the Terraform ZIP package for the Windows 64-bit operating system. The ZIP package will be downloaded locally.

   

   Figure 1.1: Download Windows Terraform binary

4. Unzip the content of the downloaded ZIP file into the Terraform folder that we created in Step 1:

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