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-In this section, we will
learn how to install Terraform.

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Terraform can be downloaded as
a single binary or an executable

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file from the Terraform download
section in www.terraform.io.

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Installing Terraform is as simple
as downloading this file and

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copying it to the system path.

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Once installed, we can check
the version by running the

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command Terraform version.

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The latest version of Terraform
as of this recording is 0.13

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and we'll be making use of this
version throughout the course.

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Terraform is supported on
Windows, Mac and several other

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Linux-based distributions.

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Please note that all the examples
and labs used in this course

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will make use of Terraform
running on a Linux machine and

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specifically the version 0.13.

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That's it.

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We can now start deploying
resources using Terraform.

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As stated earlier, Terraform
uses configuration files which

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are written in HCL to deploy
infrastructure resources.

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These files have a .tf extension
and can be created using any text

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editor such as Notepad or Notepad++
for Windows or command line text

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editors such as Vim or eMac in Linux
or it could be any ID of your choice.

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What is a resource?

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A resource is an object
data for managers.

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It could be a file on a local host
or it could be a virtual machine on

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the cloud such as an EC2 instance.

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It could be services like S3 buckets,
ECS, DynamoDB tables, IM users or IM

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groups, rules, policies, et cetera.

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Or it could be resources on
major cloud providers such as

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the Compute an App Engine from
GCP, databases on Azure, Azure

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Active Directory, et cetera.

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There are literally hundreds
of resources that can be

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provisioned across most of
the cloud and on-premise

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infrastructure using Terraform.

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We will look into some of these
examples later in this course,

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but for the first few sections,
we will stick to two very easy to

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understand resources, the local file
type of resource and a special kind

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of resource called a random pit.

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It is important to use a simple
resource type to really understand

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the basics of Terraform such
as the lifecycle of resources,

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the HCL format, et cetera.

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Once we gain a good understanding
of the basics, we can easily apply

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that knowledge to other real-life
use cases and we will see that

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in later sections of this course.