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.

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.