Step By Step to Install & Configure Terraform in window server 2019 base

Hello,In this blog we are installing & configure terraform in window server 2019 base.Terraform is a free & open source an infrastructure as code tool.Using terraform,we can easily deployed the infrastructure on popular service providers.

There are some steps to setup Terraform in window server 2019 base:

• Login to window server 2019 base.

• Open the Windows PowerShell.

• Windows PowerShell will open.

Install Scoop on Window Server

Scoop is a open source command line package manager for Windows server.It allows to install open source packages on windows systems.

• Run the following command.It will change the execution policy to remote signed for your account & allow to install Scoop.

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser

• Type A & hit the enter.
• Here is the command output.

• Now install scoop.

iwr -useb get.scoop.sh -outfile 'install.ps1'
.\install.ps1 -RunAsAdmin

• Here is the command output.

•  To list all options available with Scoop.

scoop help

• Here is the output.

Install Terraform on Server 2019

• Run the following command:

scoop install terraform which vim touch

• Here is the command output.

• Display the location of terraform.

which terraform

• Here is the command output.

• Check the terraform version.

terraform.exe -v

• Here is the command output.

Configure Terraform on Server 2019

• Create a directory

mkdir terraform

• Here is the command output.

• Navigate to directory & create a terraform main configuration file.

cd terraform
touch main.tf

• Open the created file.

vim main.tf

• Paste the following code.

# Provider
provider "aws" {
access_key = ""
secret_key = ""
region = "us-east-1"
}

• Display the code.

cat main.tf

• Here is the command output.

• Initialize the Terraform.

terraform init

• Here is the command output.

• List all created files and directories.

ls

• Here is the output.

• Remove the Terraform.

scoop uninstall terraform