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Setting up your development environment

Setting up your development environment - Terraform Tutorial

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Setting up your development environment

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- Let's set up our development environment to begin developing Terraform code. Like any software development, Terraform is developed in, just in regular text files. You can use any text editor, notepad, VI, anything you want. In this course, we're going to use VS Code, which is a free to use integrated development environment. It's got a great set of plugins and tools specific for Terraform. So, we're going to go ahead and run through setting that up really quick just to ensure that we're all kind of using the same tools and you'll be able to run through some of the demos later on in this video. So, we're going to get started. I've got some handy links in here. We're going to go over how to download this code for the course here in a few minutes. But before we do that, we're going to set up Visual Studio Code. So, we just follow the link here to the Download page for Visual Studio Code. It's a very simple install. It's going to take us 30 seconds to get this up and running. So, VS…

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