Getting started with Terraform

In this book, we will focus on open-source Terraform. We will be demonstrating the complete Terraform setup on the CentOS 7.x machine that we used in the previous chapters. HashiCorp does not provide native packages for operating systems, so Terraform is distributed as a single binary, packaged inside a ZIP archive.

Let's set up Terraform on our CentOS server. Follow these steps:

  1. We have to download the Terraform binaries from the official website: https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html. In our case, we will be using Linux 64-bit:

  1. Unzip the extracted Terraform .zip file. You need to install the unzip package ...

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