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Installing Terraform by script on Windows

If we use Windows, we can use Chocolatey, which is a free public package manager, such as NuGet or npm, but dedicated to software; it is widely used for the automation of software on Windows servers or even local machines.


The Chocolatey official website is here:  https://chocolatey.org/, and its installation documentation is at  https://chocolatey.org/install.

Once Chocolatey is installed, we just need to run the following command in PowerShell or in the CMD tool:

choco install terraform -y

The following is a screenshot of the Terraform installation for Windows with Chocolatey:

Executing the choco install terraform command installs the latest version of Terraform from Chocolatey.

Once installed, we can check the Terraform version by running the following command:

terraform version

This command displays the installed Terraform version.

We can also check out the different commands that Terraform offers by running the following command:

terraform --help

The following screenshot lists the different commands and their functions:


Let's now look at the installation of Terraform on macOS.