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Installing Terraform in Windows Machine
Downloading Terraform binary
Go to https://www.terraform.io/downloads and choose between 386 or Amd64 that suits your machine. I will stick with 386 for the demo I got terraform_1.2.8_windows_386.zip
at the time. This archive contain only one file, which is terraform.exe
and we will extract it.
Extracting the binary to the program files folder
Let’s create a folder inside C:\Program Files (x86)
named Terraform
and extract the terraform_1.2.8_windows_386.zip
inside the folder. If you downloaded the amd64 version, you can create it inside C:\Program Files
instead.

Adding path for executable Terraform
Terraform isn’t available yet in the console because we aren’t adding the path yet for the executable binary. Press Windows
key and search for Edit the system environment variables
and click on it.

System properties windows will open. Click on Environment Variables
, double click on Path
variable to open Edit environment variable
window, then add the path C:\Program Files (x86)\Terraform
and save it

Now let’s test our installation.
Test the Terraform installation
Open Command Prompt or Powershell, try to check the terraform version to confirm the installation:
terraform -version
the result should be similar to this:
Terraform v1.2.8
on windows_386