bigchaindb/docs/source/prod-node-setup-mgmt/install-terraform.md

Install Terraform

The Terraform documentation has installation instructions for all common operating systems.

Ubuntu Installation Tips

If you want to install Terraform on Ubuntu, first download the .zip file. Then install it in /opt:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/terraform
sudo unzip path/to/zip-file.zip -d /opt/terraform

Why install it in /opt? See the answers at Ask Ubuntu.

Next, add /opt/terraform to your path. If you use bash for your shell, then you could add this line to ~/.bashrc:

export PATH="/opt/terraform:$PATH"

After doing that, relaunch your shell or force it to read ~/.bashrc again, e.g. by doing source ~/.bashrc. You can verify that terraform is installed and in your path by doing:

terraform --version

It should say the current version of Terraform.