Installing Terraform and Setting up an Development Environment

Details

Goals & objectives

Hardware & software

Solution overview

This challenge lab discusses setting up an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and installing the Terraform binary on the base operating system, along with steps to run it inside a development container.

Lab diagram

Goals and objectives

Setting Up Visual Studio Code for Terraform
Option 1: Installing Terrafron on BaseOS
Option 2: Installing Terraform as part of a development container (dev-container)

Hardware and software

Ubuntu Linux - BaseOS
VSCode (Visual Studio Code)
Docker
Hashi Terraform (v1.11.2)