Upgrade terraform to specific version

homebrew terraform
kentor picture kentor · May 23, 2019 · Viewed 28.3k times · Source

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

StephenKing picture StephenKing · May 23, 2019

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

After installation via brew install tfenv, 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

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