DevOps Engineering part 1. (Ubuntu server) – Install the DevOps development tools on Ubuntu server

Ubuntu server does not have a user interface, we will use the terminal to install the DevOps tools.

Terraform

• On your workstation open a web browser and navigate to https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html to get the version of the latest Terraform release.
• Substitute the x.x.x with the latest version

# Use the temp directory
cd /tmp

# Update the package repository
sudo apt-get update

# Install unzip
sudo apt-get install unzip

# Download the latest version of Terraform (substitute the x.x.x with the latest version)
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/XX.XX.XX/terraform_XX.XX.XX_linux_amd64.zip

# Unzip the downloaded file (substitute the x.x.x with the latest version)
unzip terraform_XX.XX.XX_linux_amd64.zip

# Move the executable to a directory in the path
sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/

# Check the installed version
terraform --version

AWS CLI

To install AWS CLI with the package manager.

# Update the package repository
sudo apt-get update

# Install aws cli
sudo apt-get install awscli

# Check the version
aws --version

Update AWS CLI to the latest version

Older versions of the AWS CLI do not contain the EKS tools, you may get the error message:
Invalid choice: ‘eks’, maybe you meant:

To update AWS CLI

# Install Pip
apt install python-pip