In this post, we will explore the basics (and a few tips of many years of experience) to configure your development environment to start writing Terraform code for Microsoft Azure.
1. Installing Terraform
Installing Terraform is very simple. We just need to download the file from https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html and extract the executable to a folder. Then, we add the folder to the PATH variable in our operating system.
Terraform is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris.
To verify Terraform is working, we type terraform in the command prompt.
2. Preparing to write Terraform code
The most popular editor to write Terraform code is Visual Studio Code. It is a free & open-source editor available for Windows, macOS, and multiple versions of Linux. Download it at https://code.visualstudio.com
Then, install the Terraform extension By Mikael Olenfalk and the Azure Terraform extension by Microsoft.
