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Terraform Installation

1. Download Terraform from terroform.io

   For Mac,

   wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.8/terraform_0.11.8_darwin_amd64.zip -O /tmp/terraform.zip
   

   For Linux,

   wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.8/terraform_0.11.8_linux_amd64.zip -O /tmp/terraform.zip
   

2. Extract to a directory

   mkdir -p mkdir -p ${HOME}/terraform
   unzip /tmp/terraform.zip -d ${HOME}/terraform/
   

3. Set Classpath

   echo 'export PATH=${HOME}/terraform:${PATH}' >> ~/.bashrc
   source ~/.bashrc
   

Configure AWS

Make sure to configure AWS credentials so that terraform can create/manage AWS resources.

Create/Open ~/.aws/credentials file and make sure it has access key and secret access key

[env]
region = us-west-2
output = json
aws_access_key_id = <YOUR AWS ACCESS KEY ID>
aws_secret_access_key = <YOUR AWS SECRET ACCESS KEY ID>