Upgrade Terraform version - terraform

Question

I'm start using Terraform and I'm following the project updates on his Github repository.
I see new releases are available on releases section:
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases
I installed Terraform tool following the steps:
https://www.terraform.io/intro/getting-started/install.html
The new releases are a zip file with base code but I want to know how I can install it on my computer (OSX). What I downloaded when I installed for the first time was a zip file with just a "terraform" file as unix executable.
How I can generate this Unix executable from the zip available on the github releases section?
Any idea?
Thank you!

Answer 1

If you use Homebrew on MacOS already, you can install Terraform simply by
$ brew install terraform
and upgrade by
$ brew upgrade terraform
In fact, you might be interested in letting Homebrew also control other tools:
$ brew install awscli
$ brew install packer
$ brew cask install docker
$ brew cask install virtualbox
$ brew cask install vagrant

Answer 2

There are packages for each OS available on the Downloads Page.
Pick the appropriate package for your OS and download the zip file.
Extract the contents of the zip file, which should be a single terraform binary, into some reasonable location that's in your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin).
Add execute permissions: e.g. chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/terraform.
Run terraform and make sure you see the help text.

Answer 3

You could download the binary :
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/${TERRAFORM_VERSION}/terraform_${TERRAFORM_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip
then :
unzip terraform_${TERRAFORM_VERSION}_linux_amd64.zip
then :
mv terraform /usr/local/bin/
make sure to change ${TERRAFORM_VERSION} by the version you want to install
exemple :
0.13.2

Answer 4

**TLDR:
for Installation - brew install terraform
for Upgrade - brew upgrade terraform
for Verification - terraform --version

Answer 5

i'm new to using terraform, but to use terraform with multiple versions i use tfenv as terraform version manager
tfenv command
$ tfenv
tfenv 2.2.3
Usage: tfenv <command> [<options>]
Commands:
install Install a specific version of Terraform
use Switch a version to use
uninstall Uninstall a specific version of Terraform
list List all installed versions
list-remote List all installable versions
version-name Print current version
init Update environment to use tfenv correctly.
pin Write the current active version to ./.terraform-version
terraform currently i use
$ terraform -version
Terraform v1.1.9
on linux_amd64
list of terraform i have
$ tfenv list
1.2.0-rc2
* 1.1.9 (set by /home/takimi/.tfenv/version)
change terraform version
$ tfenv use 1.2.0-rc2
and if you want to use another terraform version you just install it with command tfenv install <terraform version>

Answer 6

Adding this response for the sake of completeness.
Hashicorp came up with their own brew taps for all Hashicorp products for MacOS platforms.
to upgrade ...
brew upgrade hashicorp/tap/{vault|consul|nomad|terraform|packer}
to install ...
brew install hashicorp/tap/{vault|consul|nomad|terraform|packer}
Reference : https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-homebrew-tap

Answer 7

This is detailed in the repository README under 'Developing Terraform' HERE
Essentially...
Ensure you've installed the GO programming language (version 1.7+ at the time of writing).
Create a GO workspace directory.
Create the $GOPATH environment variable pointing to the GO workspace directory you just created.
Add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH
Clone the Terraform repo (or extract zip) to $GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/terraform
Run make dev within the Terraform repo.
The Terraform binary should be created in $GOPATH/bin
I would recommend you follow the steps in the README as opposed to what I've written above it's comprehensive and may change.
You shouldn't need to do any of this unless your actively developing Terraform, otherwise stick with the installation method in the getting started guide.

Answer 8

To work with multiple Terraform versions, I'm using tfswitch. This allows you to switch between the terraform versions which makes things much easier.
You can find the documentation here.

Answer 9

I was able to use this tool to manage terraform versions: https://github.com/Zordrak/tfenv. The first step was to remove the existing installation with: rm '/usr/local/bin/terraform'

Answer 10

You could use something like asdf or tfenv to manage the terraform binaries.
Gives you the advantage of having the option to use different version per project if required.

Answer 11

$sudo apt-get upgrade
it will work in linux if you have setup right path for terraform