Terraform

This role installs the Terraform CLI on Windows or Linux servers.

Requirements

There are no external requirements for this role.

Role Variables

There are a few variables that can be set from the playbook if you like and the role makes an assumption in the defaults section.

terraform_version

This is the version of terraform that will be installed, the complete list can be found on the Hashicorp Releases page. The value should only include everything after 'terraform_' so for the latest version the value would be:

  terraform_version: 0.14.3

download_dir

This is the directory where the Terraform installation package will be downloaded to.

Windows Default

  download_dir: "C:\\Windows\\Temp"

Linux Default

  download_dir: "/tmp"

terraform_dir

This is the directory where Terraform is installed into

Windows Default

  terraform_dir: "C:\\ProgramData\\Hashicorp\\Terraform"

Linux Default

  terraform_dir: "/opt/terraform"

Dependencies

There are no external dependencies for this role.

Example Playbooks

A playbook for installing the latest version of Terraform to all hosts

    - hosts: all
      roles:
         - terraform
      vars:
        terraform_version: 0.14.3

A playbook for installing a specific version of Terraform to a different location on Windows.

    - hosts: windows
      roles:
         - terraform
      vars:
        terraform_version: 0.14.0
        terraform_dir: "C:\\Program Files\Terraform"

License

MIT

Author Information

My name is Jeff Patton, feel free to contact me via issues.