Terraform 1 of 10: Installation and Usage on AWS Cloud9

Note: The environment in this example is AWS Cloud9.

1 of 6. Install yum-config-manager to manage your repositories.

sudo yum install -y yum-utils

2 of 6. Use yum-config-manager to add the official HashiCorp Linux repository.

sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/AmazonLinux/hashicorp.repo

3 of 6. Install Terraform from the new repository.

sudo yum -y install terraform

4 of 6. Verify that the installation worked by opening a new terminal session and listing Terraform's available subcommands.

terraform -help

5 of 6. Check the terraform version

terraform version

6 of 6. Create a new folder hands-on-task-terraform under humangov on Cloud9.

This folder will be used in future hands-on-tasks.

mkdir hands-on-tasks-terraform ls

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