Upgrade terraform to specific version

Question

Use case

I have installed Terraform v0.11.13 via homebrew and as recommended by terraform I want to ugprade to version v0.11.14 before doing the major upgrade to v0.12.0.

The problem

When I run brew upgrade terraform or download the Mac package from the terraform website it would immediately update my terraform version to v0.12.0 I think.

So how can I upgrade to v0.11.14 instead?

Answer 1

Especially when playing around with Terraform 0.12 betas, I learned to love tfenv.

After installation (via brew install tfenv on MacOS), this allows you to easily discover, install and activate any Terraform version:

$ tfenv list-remote 0.12.0 0.12.0-rc1 0.12.0-beta2 0.12.0-beta1 0.12.0 0.11.14 ...  $ tfenv install 0.11.14 [INFO] Installing Terraform v0.11.14 [INFO] Downloading release tarball from https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.14/terraform_0.11.14_darwin_amd64.zip ... [INFO] Installation of terraform v0.11.14 successful [INFO] Switching to v0.11.14 [INFO] Switching completed 

If you want to switch to a different version:

$ tfenv use 0.12.0 [INFO] Switching to v0.12.0 [INFO] Switching completed 

Answer 2

For anyone looking to do the same without using homebrew:

1. Get source

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.11.14/terraform_0.11.14_linux_amd64.zip  $ unzip terraform_0.11.14_linux_amd64.zip 

2. Give binary executable permissions and install (will overwrite current version)

$ chmod +x terraform  $ sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/ 

3. Confirm version

$ terraform --version 

Source: https://titosoft.github.io/kvm/terraform-and-kvm/#installing-terraform