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Install Terraform and run it once

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Your first Terraform build takes four commands.
You'll learn to

install Terraform (or open the lab), run terraform version and a first init/apply with the local provider

Recap

  1. 1Terraform is one program: brew, apt, or the Windows zip (or our browser lab)
  2. 2terraform init downloads the providers and writes the lock file
  3. 3terraform apply builds it and writes terraform.tfstate
Check yourself

Which command downloads the providers?

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