getting started with terraform

So the terraform installation instructions on their site are not straight forward. Here how I did it
Linux (VM) : CentOS 6

Download the binaries
https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html

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yum install -y zip unzip # install zip,unzip if not already present unzip terraform_*.* # unzip terraform and cd into the zipped directory echo $PATH # list the runtime path mv terraform /usr/local/bin/ # move the terraform binary file to the runtime path terraform -v # check the version of the terraform

windows

• Download from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html
• unzip it.
• create a terraform directory directly under C:/
• then move the terraform.exe to the C:/terraform
• launch our good old command window and run 'set PATH=%PATH%;C:\terraform'
• Since we want it to be accessible via powershell to, go to environment variables and add the 'C:\terraform' to your PATH.
• Run terraform -v

good luck.