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Installing and configuring Terraform and a provider to connect to YDB

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Updated at April 24, 2026
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You can download Terraform from the official HashiCorp website. If the website is unavailable, use our mirror. Download the Terraform distribution for your platform and add the path to the folder with the executable to the PATH: export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/terraform variable.

Installing Terraform for Windows, Linux, and macOS from the HashiCorp website

  • Download Terraform from the official website and follow this guide to install it.
  • Install Terraform using the Chocolatey package manager by running the choco install terraform command.

Once you have installed Terraform, configure it to access YDB. First, install a provider to connect to YDB and provide API methods.

Installing a provider for YDB

Terraform will download and install a provider from the URL you specified in the provider_installation section of the .terraformrc file.

  1. Open the Terraform CLI configuration file, ~/.terraformrc, in any text editor.

    Note

    The .terraformrc file must be in the user's home root folder, e.g., /home/user/ or /User/user/.

  2. Add the following section to the file:

    provider_installation {
    network_mirror {
        url = "https://terraform-mirror.yandexcloud.net/"
        include = ["registry.terraform.io/*/*"]
    }
    direct {
        exclude = ["registry.terraform.io/*/*"]
    }
}

  1. Open the Terraform CLI terraform.rc configuration file in your user's %APPDATA% folder.

  2. Add the following section to the file:

    provider_installation {
    network_mirror {
        url = "https://terraform-mirror.yandexcloud.net/"
        include = ["registry.terraform.io/*/*"]
}
    direct {
        exclude = ["registry.terraform.io/*/*"]
    }
}

This completes the installation and configuration of Terraform and the provider for connecting to YDB. You can move on to creating configuration files for YDB access.

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