This guide will help you to Install Terraform on Fedora 35/34/33/32/31. Terraform is a cloud-agnostic Infrastructure automation tool used to manage cloud and on-premise resources. Terraform can build, change, and version infrastructure deployed on popular service providers.
With Terraform you can manage Cloud Compute, Networking, Load Balancers, DNS and so on using simple Declarative Programming Language. See the complete list of Terraform Providers.
There are two methods from which we can install terraform on Fedora35/34/33/32/31. We will cover terraform installation on our Fedora system from YUM repository and manual installation.
Method 1: Install Terraform from YUM repository
Terraform development team provides package repositories for RedHat Enterprise Linux based Linux distributions such as Fedora, CentOS, Rocky Linux and Amazon Linux systems.
Add HashiCorp repository to your system by running the following commands:
sudo dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://rpm.releases.hashicorp.com/fedora/hashicorp.repoConfirm that the repo was added successfully to the system:
$ sudo dnf repolist
repo id repo name
fedora Fedora 35 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 35 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular Fedora Modular 35 - x86_64
hashicorp Hashicorp Stable - x86_64
updates Fedora 35 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular Fedora Modular 35 - x86_64 - UpdatesFinally install terraform package on Fedora 35/34/33/32/31/30 Linux system:
sudo dnf install terraformReview dependency tree and proceed with the installation:
Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
terraform x86_64 1.0.11-1 hashicorp 12 M
Installing dependencies:
openssl x86_64 1:1.1.1l-2.fc35 fedora 659 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 2 Packages
Total download size: 13 M
Installed size: 57 M
Is this ok [y/N]: yValidate successful installation of Terraform on Fedora by checking the verison:
$ terraform --version
Terraform v1.0.11
on linux_amd64Method 2: Manual installation of Terraform on Fedora
Terraform primary distribution method is a .zip archive which contains single executable file that you can extract and run on your system. You can check the latest release on Terraform releases page before downloading below.
Install wget and curl tools on your Fedora:
sudo dnf install wget curlThen download the latest release of Terraform in .zip archive format.
TER_VER=`curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/hashicorp/terraform/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d \"\,\v | awk '$1=$1;1'`
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/$TER_VER/terraform_$TER_VER_linux_amd64.zipAfter the download, extract the archive:
$ unzip terraform_$TER_VER_linux_amd64.zip
Archive: terraform_xxxx_linux_amd64.zip
inflating: terraformMove terraform binary to /usr/local/bin directory:
sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/This will make the tool accessible to all user accounts.
$ which terraform
/usr/local/bin/terraformConfirm the version installed
$ terraform --version
Terraform v1.0.11
on linux_amd64Verify that the tool works:
$ terraform
Usage: terraform [global options] [args]
The available commands for execution are listed below.
The primary workflow commands are given first, followed by
less common or more advanced commands.
Main commands:
init Prepare your working directory for other commands
validate Check whether the configuration is valid
plan Show changes required by the current configuration
apply Create or update infrastructure
destroy Destroy previously-created infrastructure
All other commands:
console Try Terraform expressions at an interactive command prompt
fmt Reformat your configuration in the standard style
force-unlock Release a stuck lock on the current workspace
get Install or upgrade remote Terraform modules
graph Generate a Graphviz graph of the steps in an operation
import Associate existing infrastructure with a Terraform resource
login Obtain and save credentials for a remote host
logout Remove locally-stored credentials for a remote host
output Show output values from your root module
providers Show the providers required for this configuration
refresh Update the state to match remote systems
show Show the current state or a saved plan
state Advanced state management
taint Mark a resource instance as not fully functional
test Experimental support for module integration testing
untaint Remove the 'tainted' state from a resource instance
version Show the current Terraform version
workspace Workspace management
Global options (use these before the subcommand, if any):
-chdir=DIR Switch to a different working directory before executing the
given subcommand.
-help Show this help output, or the help for a specified subcommand.
-version An alias for the "version" subcommand. Next Steps
Now that you have Terraform installed, it is time to build infrastructure using a minimal Terraform configuration file. Terraform Use Cases is an interesting page to read.
Other installation guides:
For Ubuntu use:
Windows guys can follow Install and Use Terraform on Windows / Windows Server
