Install terraform on Windows

In this post we will install terraform on windows step by step.

Download Terraform on Windows

Search terraform download on browser or open terraforms official website from here Terraform Download

Download the latest release of the terraform package, previous release can also be downloaded as per the requirement.

After downloading the package, Extract it and we can see terraform.exe file in the folder

Read More: Install terraform in Linux

Now open command prompt and navigate to the folder where you have extracted the terraform package and run the below terraform version command (terraform –version), you can see the version as an output but if we try the same command outside this folder, we will get the below error.

C:\Users\Admin>terraform --version
'terraform' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

To avoid the above error we will add an entry in the path section of the environment variables

Configure System Environment Variables for Terraform

Go to start and search for Edit the system environment variables and click on Environment  Variables…

Double click on the Path section

Click on New to add an entry in the section and paste the terraform file location, in my case the file got downloaded inside Downloads folder but you can move the file anywhere you want and set the path here

This time if we try running the terraform version command in a new command prompt terminal it will work from any location

Command to check the terraform version

terraform --version

Command to check terraforms other primary and workflow command

terraform

Conclusion

In this article we saw all the required steps that aid us to download terraform on windows machine and configure system environment variables which allow us to call terraform from any location.