INSTALLING TERRAFORM ON A MACBOOK USING BREW

Step 1

Open Terminal and type

/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”

Enter the system password and press enter

Homebrew is downloaded and installed automatically

Now you can use the HomeBrew Package manager to install other needed tools for your Mac.

 

INSTALLING TERRAFORM USING BREW

 

Steps

1. Install the HashiCorp tap, a repository of all our Homebrew packages

$ brew tap hashicorp/tap

2. Now install Terraform with the following command

$ brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform

3. Run any terraform command to confirm installation e.g. terraform -help

 

One major advantage of HomeBrew is that you can easily update terraform using this package manager by running

brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform