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[cchacons-tech]

How do I install terraform-docs on ubuntu ?

[djkrivak]

Hi @cchacons-tech,

Refer to the Pre-compiled Binary section in the Installation section of docs.

[nileshgadgi]

Hello @cchacons-tech,
You can install terraform-doc using this script,
Just copy the below code and paste in your terminal.

curl -Lo ./terraform-docs.tar.gz https://github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs/releases/download/v0.16.0/terraform-docs-v0.16.0-$(uname)-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf terraform-docs.tar.gz
chmod +x terraform-docs
mv terraform-docs /usr/local/terraform-docs

You can install it via GoLang too if you have Go installed on your machine.

The latest version can be installed using go install or go get:

# go1.17+
go install github.com/terraform-docs/[email protected]

# go1.16
GO111MODULE="on" go get github.com/terraform-docs/[email protected]

NOTE: please use the latest Go to do this, minimum go1.16 is required.

This will put terraform-docs in $(go env GOPATH)/bin. If you encounter the error terraform-docs: command not found after installation then you may need to either add that directory to your $PATH as shown here or do a manual installation by cloning the repo and run make build from the repository which will put terraform-docs in:

$(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs/bin/$(uname | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64/terraform-docs

You can refer this for more information.