How to install Terraform on M1/M2 Mac

Terraform is the most popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool used to build scripts to deploy applications to Cloud Services such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Services.

If you are working on a ARM based M1/M2 Mac/Macbook, and want to install Terraform then you should make use of Homebrew package manager.

1. Open Terminal App.
2. Now run the command,

   brew install terraform

   Logs:
   ==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/terraform/manifests/1.5.7
   ######## 100.0%
   ==> Fetching terraform
   ==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/terraform/blobs/sha256:f43afa7c6970e1b
   ######## 100.0%
   ==> Pouring terraform--1.5.7.arm64_sonoma.bottle.tar.gz
   🍺  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/terraform/1.5.7: 6 files, 69.7MB
   ==> Running `brew cleanup terraform`...
   Disable this behavior by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP.
   Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).

3. Now let's validate if terraform was installed correctly by running the --version command.

   % terraform --version
   Terraform v1.5.7
   on darwin_arm64

   As you can see we have the ARM-64 Native version installed on M1/M2 Mac.

This is not an AI-generated article but is demonstrated by a human on an M1 Mac running macOS Sonoma 14.0.

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