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How to Install Terraform Terraform must first be installed on your machine. Terraform is distributed as a binary package for all supported platforms and architecture. To install Terraform, find the appropriate package for your system and download it. Terraform is packaged in a zip archive. You need to unzip it and keep it in a location. Unzip the package. Let’s create a directory terraform and save the unzipped file inside the folder. cd /home/ubuntu mkdir terraform wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.8/terraform_0.11.8_linux_amd64.zip unzip terraform_0.11.8_linux_amd64.zip Once we have the terraform file, we will set its path in .bashrc file.  Add a line to the file: PATH=$PATH:/home/ubuntu/terraform. vi .bashrc PATH=$PATH:/home/ubuntu/terraform To verify the installation, we have to run the command terraform from anywhere on the machine. We will go through all these commands at the latter part of this blog. terraform BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE Once we have Terraform installed, we will create the infrastructure. For the cloud provider, we are going to use AWS here. We can use any other cloud vendors such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean, etc. If you don’t have AWS account, create one. We will use the resources which are under free-tier. The set of files used to describe infrastructure is called Terraform configurations. We are going to write our first configuration to launch infrastructure in AWS. Let’s create a directory for our project and create a terraform file with all our configurations. mkdir...