Terraform: Set your local environment developer
I wil use Ubuntu in WSL v2 as my local environment for my IaC project with Terraform. I will install the following tools:
- vscode
- Trunk
- tenv
- az cli
az cli
I will use the Azure CLI to interact with Azure resources from the command line. I will install the Azure CLI using the following commands:
vscode
I will use Visual Studio Code as my code editor for my IaC project with Terraform. I will install the following extensions:
- Terraform
- Azure Terraform
- Azure Account
- Trunk
tenv
tenv is a tool that allows you to manage multiple Terraform environments with ease. It provides a simple way to switch between different environments, such as development, staging, and production, by managing environment variables and state files for each environment.
Installation
You can install tenv using go get:
LATEST_VERSION=$(curl --silent https://api.github.com/repos/tofuutils/tenv/releases/latest | jq -r .tag_name)
curl -O -L "https://github.com/tofuutils/tenv/releases/latest/download/tenv_${LATEST_VERSION}_amd64.deb"
sudo dpkg -i "tenv_${LATEST_VERSION}_amd64.deb"
Usage
To create a new environment, you can use the tenv create command: