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---
layout: docs
page_title: Run Consul-Terraform-Sync
description: >-
Consul-Terraform-Sync requires a Terraform Provider, a Terraform Module and a running Consul Cluster outside of the consul-terraform-sync daemon.
---
# Run Consul-Terraform-Sync
1. Move the `consul-terraform-sync` binary to a location available on your `PATH`.
```shell-session
$ mv ~/Downloads/consul-terraform-sync /usr/local/bin/consul-terraform-sync
```
2. Create the config.hcl file, all the options are available [here](/docs/nia/installation/configuration).
3. Run consul-terraform-sync.
```shell-session
$ consul-terraform-sync -config-file <config.hcl>
```
4. Check status of tasks. Replace port number if configured in Step 2. See additional API endpoints [here](/docs/nia/api)
```shell-session
$ curl localhost:8558/status/tasks
```
## Other Run modes
Consul-Terraform-Sync allows you to inspect your configuration before applying
any change and to run in once mode, meaning that you can verify the changes are
correctly applied in a test run before running it in unsupervised daemon mode.
To learn more on these options check the
[Consul-Terraform-Sync Run Modes and Status Inspection](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/consul/consul-terraform-sync-run-and-inspect?utm_source=WEBSITE&utm_medium=WEB_IO&utm_offer=ARTICLE_PAGE&utm_content=DOCS) tutorial.