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Meet Cloud Compass: AI-assisted IaC Coverage Audit and Risk Mitigation

Cloud Compass enhances your cloud resource management. Using AI-assisted logic, it auto-analyzes IaC coverage blind spots and trends over time, helping you quickly close any gaps.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder, OpenTofu Steering Committee

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OpenTofu 1.9 Introduces the 'exclude' Flag and ‘for_each’ for Providers

The OpenTofu 1.9 release introduces updates to make infrastructure management more efficient. Key additions include the -exclude flag and for_each functionality for providers.

Arel Rabinowitz

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

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Build vs. Buy: Choosing the Right Approach to IaC Management 

The "build vs. buy" debate shapes IaC automation. This post examines the challenges of scaling IaC with general tools like GitHub Actions and how platforms like env0 offer solutions.

Hadas Weinrib

Product Marketing

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⚡ Lightning Talk: Shift FinOps Left with IaC

Join Hassan Khajeh Hosseini, CEO of InfraCost, and Andrew Hay, env0's Director of Customer Success, for a 30-minute lightning talk exploring the synergy between Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and FinOps.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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Mastering Managed IaC Self-Service: The Complete Guide

Discover how managed IaC self-service empowers developers and DevOps teams alike. Explores key benefits, best practices, and how to maximize efficiency and control with Infrastructure as Code.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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Mastering Ansible Playbooks: Step by Step Guide

This guide will introduce Ansible Playbooks and demonstrate how they work through an example deployment of a Flask application on an Apache server with a PostgreSQL database.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Terraform Map Variable: A Complete Guide with Practical Examples

In this blog, we’ll explain what Terraform maps are, explore their use cases, and share practical examples and best practices for effectively using them—and more.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Meet Us in Salt Lake for KubeCon 2024 (and OpenTofu Day)!

We’re thrilled to be part of this year’s KubeCon, the leading cloud-native event, happening from November 12th to 15th at Salt Lake City. Come see us at Booth P6

Amalya Shnaps

Community and Events

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Terraform Workspaces Guide: Commands, Examples and Best Practices

This blog post covers Terraform workspaces, commands, best practices, practical examples, and more.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Streamlining env0 Onboarding with Environment Discovery

The latest upgrade to our Environment Discovery feature improves how you onboard your existing environments to env0, making the process quicker and smoother than ever before!

Tom Porat

Engineering Team

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Mastering Cloud Efficiency, Scaling with FinOps and Infrastructure as Code

Join our webinar to learn about the connection between FinOps and IaC management, the role of FinOps in cloud environments, and practical ways to optimize cloud costs with FinOps and IaC tools.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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OpenTofu Registry Guide: Tips, Examples, and Ways to Contribute

The OpenTofu registry UI is now live! To mark this occasion, here's a quick guide to help you explore its use cases, key features, and ways to contribute.

Arel Rabinowitz

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

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Terraform for Loops Guide: Types, Examples and Best Practices

Terraform for loop helps you write simplified, repeatable code used to deploy resources. In this article, we’ll explore 'for' loops using 'for_each' and 'count', how and when to use them, example scenarios, best practices, and much more.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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The Essential Ansible Tutorial: A Step by Step Guide

In this tutorial, we'll cover the fundamentals of working with Ansible, from installation to creating your first playbook. In later sections, we'll dive into practical hands-on examples for advanced use cases and show why Ansible has become a go-to solution for many modern DevOps practices.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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The Four Stages of Terraform Automation

In this blog post, we'll explore the four stages of Terraform and OpenTofu automation, providing a roadmap as you look to scale your IaC practices.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Terraform Lookup Function: Examples, Use Cases and Best Practices

The Terraform/OpenTofu 'lookup' function helps maintain clean, DRY, and reusable code. In this blog, we'll explore the various scenarios where the 'lookup' function can be used, and provide some practical examples for both common and more advanced use cases.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Terraform Count Meta-Argument: Indexing, Examples and Use Cases

In this blog, we’ll learn more about count, describe its use cases, and show how you can use it to create multiple resources with ease - with or without conditional expressions.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Webinar: Lessons Learned from Managing IaC Across 800+ Environments

Join Sergey Korolev of Rakuten Viber to learn how his team automates and manages Infrastructure as Code, and how mature IaC practices improve developer experience, reduce technical debt, and streamline operations at scale.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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OpenTofu v1.8: A Detailed Look at the Upcoming Release

As OpenTofu quickly nears its next stable release, we delve into its new features, discuss their use cases, and explore the challenges they will address for OpenTofu users.

Arel Rabinowitz

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

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Terraform Cloud (TFC) Alternatives: In-Depth Guide

Recent events are prompting companies to reconsider their TFC subscriptions. At this critical moment, let’s take a closer look at TFC—explore its features, limitations, and pricing model, and review potential alternatives that might better meet your needs.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Terraform Import Command and Import Block: Examples, Tips and Best Practices

Learn how to use the 'import' command and import blog to move existing resources into your Terraform/OpenTofu state file.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Terraform Validate Command: Practical Examples and Best Practices

The 'validate' command helps you check the syntax of your Terraform or OpenTofu code before deployment. Learn how to use it effectively for seamless infrastructure provisioning.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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env0 Workflows: Simplifying Advanced IaC Setups and Managing Dependencies

env0 Workflows provides a structured approach to managing groups of related environments and their dependencies. Learn how you can use it to streamline complex IaC deployments.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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How to Use tenv to Streamline IaC Version Management

tenv is a version manager for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, and Atmos, written in Go. Check out this post to see how it works.

Anastasiia Kozlova

DevOps Engineer, Team tofuutils

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Terraform Dynamic Blocks: Advanced Use Cases and Examples

Learn how to use dynamic blocks in Terraform and OpenTofu, to create adaptable configurations based on input values.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Terraform Functions Guide: Complete List with Detailed Examples

Terraform functions are essential for creating effective infrastructure code. In this blog post, we'll provide a 360° review of Terraform/OpenTofu functions, with practical and detailed examples.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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New Variable Sets: Boost Efficiency, Reduce Clutter

Variable sets can be linked to an entire Organization or to specific Projects, Templates, Workflows, or Environments, which serves to reduce clutter and ensures maximal flexibility.

Tom Porat

Engineering Team

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Environment Output Variables: Easy and Secure Output Piping

Our latest feature enhances env0 Workflows, simplifying sharing outputs of one environment with another in the same project or workflow, and storing them securely on the env0 platform. 

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Terraform Best Practices: State Management, Reusability, Security and Beyond

In this blog, we will discuss best practices you should follow for writing clean, scalable, and efficient Terraform code, and how to achieve them with env0.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Terratest vs Terraform/OpenTofu Test: In-Depth Comparison

Why should you test your IaC? And how does the Terraform Test Framework compare to Terratest? That's what we're going to explore in this article.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Terraform Output Command: Examples, Tips and Best Practices

A practical in-depth guide on Terraform outputs with detailed examples, advanced use cases, and more.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Take Control of IaC Costs With env0 (Free Whitepaper Inside)

Discover how env0 helps you effectively manage and optimize Infrastructure as Code costs, ensuring efficient cloud spending at scale.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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Use Our New Navigation to Simplify IaC Project Management

We are thrilled to announce an upgrade to the navigation experience on the env0 platform, designed to make project management smoother and more intuitive.

Hadas Weinrib

Product Marketing

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OpenTofu v1.7: Enhanced Security with State File Encryption

The launch of OpenTofu 1.7 brings a highly anticipated update: state file encryption. In this post, we take a deep dive into this feature and other new improvements.

Roni Frantchi

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

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Terraform Files and Folder Structure: Organizing Infrastructure-as-Code

Discover best practices for Terraform configuration files and folder structures to optimize your IaC workflow and avoid future complex reorganizations.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

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Terraform Destroy Command: A Guide to Controlled Infrastructure Removal

In this post, we cover best practices and considerations to ensure the effective and safe execution of 'terraform destroy' within your infrastructure management processes.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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Environment Discovery: Automatic Environment Creation from Your Git Workflow

With Environment Discovery, you can maintain your directory-based structure in your VCS. This enables you to use your existing approval workflows, take advantage of CodeOwners, ensure auditability, and stay aligned with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices!

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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Top Infrastructure as Code Tools and Terraform Alternatives

In this post, we've selected a range of the most popular IaC tools to provide a quick overview of the IaC ecosystem and help you find the option best suited for your organization or project.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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Using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm: The Power Trio

Learn how to use env0 to create a unified platform that combines Kubernetes scalability with Terraform's provisioning strength and Helm's deployment dexterity!

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Meet Us in Paris for KubeCon Europe 2024 (and OpenTofu Day)!

KubeCon Europe, the flagship CNCF dev conference, is heading to Paris and the env0 team will be there in full force!

Matan Buganim

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Terraform for_each: Examples, Tips and Best Practices

Looping constructs provide a way to generate similar resources dynamically based on a collection or count. Learn how to use 'terraform for_each' for efficient infra management.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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Terraform Registry Guide: Tips, Examples and Best Practices

The Terraform registry is an essential asset for every Terraform user. In this blog, we provide a practical guide for how it can be used to streamline and standardize cloud infrastructure provisioning.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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Switch from Terraform Cloud in Minutes with Our New Migration Tool

Born out of frequent customer requests, our TFC migration tool simplifies and accelerates the transfer from Terraform Cloud to env0, at any scale. Visit here to see it in action.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Top Terraform Tools to Know in 2024

Discover the top Terraform tools for 2024, each with unique benefits that enhance various aspects of your Terraform experience.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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Terraform vs AWS CloudFormation: An In-Depth Comparison

In this post, we'll compare Terraform and AWS CF, discuss their pros and cons, and demonstrate how they can be used with env0, leveraging the platform’s multi-framework support.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Terraform Apply Command: Options, Examples and Best Practices

A comprehensive guide to the terraform apply command, featuring use cases, options, examples and best practices!

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

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Announcing Self-Hosted Remote State and Remote Apply

We introduce two new improvements to our ‘Remote Backend’ - ‘Self-Hosted Remote State’ and ‘Remote Apply’, both addressing common requests from our customers.

Sagi Laufer

Engineering Team

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Unpacking OpenTofu: Expert Panel on GA Release, Licensing, and OSS Future

In this ‘X Space’ panel industry experts explore OpenTofu's journey, licensing considerations in engineering, and Infrastructure-as-Code OSS future.

Matan Buganim

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Boosting Reliability With Our New Multi-Region Architecture

Today we are happy to announce the rollout of our new multi-region architecture, designed to elevate the reliability of our platform, enabling it to achieve an RTO goal of 30 minutes!

Yaron Yarimi

Engineering Team

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Celebrating OpenTofu GA With Our New CI Testing Feature!

OpenTofu is now generally available as a stable, tested, production-ready Terraform alternative! To support the release we are rolling CI Testing, leveraging the new 'tofu test' capability!

Roni Frantchi

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

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OpenTofu: The Open Source Terraform Alternative

In this post, we delve into OpenTofu and answer all of the most frequently asked questions about the project.

Igal Zeifman

env0 Marketing, Team OpenTofu

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Ansible vs Terraform: Choose One or Use Both?

In this blog post, we will compare the two tools, and then consider examples of how to use them together for a more efficient and comprehensive approach to infrastructure management.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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A Complete Guide to Terraform Cloud Pricing

In this guide, we will take a deep dive into TFC's new pricing model, review its implications and discuss the pros and cons of the new pricing scheme.

Igal Zeifman

env0 Marketing, Team OpenTofu

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OpenTofu Release Candidate Drops, env0 Wraps It Up With Terragrunt Support

OpenTofu release candidate is out and we also rolled out env0 support for Terragrunt in OpenTofu deployments! GA is scheduled for Jan 10th.

Roni Frantchi

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

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How to Manage Terraform Locals

All programming languages have a way to express and store values within the context of a code block. In the case of Terraform, that functionality is delivered through Terraform locals.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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OpenTofu Launches Into Beta with Homebrew-inspired Registry

The release introduces several bug fixes, security improvements, and updates to documentation, the details of which you can find in our change log. Most importantly, it marks the introduction of our new OpenTofu public registry!

Roni Frantchi

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

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How to Use Terraform Providers

Terraform providers are essential to the functionality of Terraform. Learn how to install and use them to interact with diverse infrastructure services - AWS, Kubernetes,GitHub and more.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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What Is Pulumi And How To Use It With Env0

Pulumi is an open source Infrastructure-as-Code framework that provisions resources utilizing common programming languages. Learn more about it and how to easily make it work with env0.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Using Jenkins for Terraform Management

This post showcases the orchestration of Terraform deployments using Jenkins in a real-world scenario. It also delves into the pros and cons of choosing Jenkins for IaC management.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Tutorial: How to Manage Terraform Versioning

Each release of Terraform brings with it new features and functionality, but also potential breaking changes. Here is how to choose well.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Tutorial: Achieving Auto Remediation with env0

Learn how to combine our trio of capabilities — drift detection, scheduling, and approval policies — to automatically ensure consistent and compliant infrastructure.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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FinOps Meets IaC: Granular Cloud Cost Optimization with env0

Our new FinOps features help teams manage budgets on a project level and prevent overruns before they occur.

Amit Alkobi

Engineering Team

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The Insider's Guide to KubeCon NA 2023 in Chicago

Heading to KubeCon NA? Our team has got you covered with a guide on how to maximize your conference experience, including can’t-miss talks, networking events, and even places to explore in Chicago!

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Product Marketing

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Pulumi vs Terraform: An In-Depth Comparison

We take a deep dive into the features, similarities, differences, and real-world use cases of Terraform and Pulumi, including real-world examples.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Meet Us in Chicago for KubeCon NA 2023!

Going to KubeCon Chicago? Visit us at Booth G10 to talk shop, grab awesome swag and take a part in our Steam Deck raffle!

Matan Buganim

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OpenTofu Alpha Launches: Try It Out in Just 3 Clicks

We are excited to announce the launch of OpenTofu alpha version and our new integration feature, which you can use for testing.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder, OpenTofu Steering Committee

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ArgoCD Tutorial: Manage and Orchestrate Applications with IaC

In this post, we show how env0 streamlines application management by integrating with ArgoCD, a popular application deployment tool for Kubernetes.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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What the Fork?! My 6 Takeaways from the Linux Foundation Keynote at OSS 2023

The Open Source Summit this year really came at quite the time. These are just a few of its many highlights.

Gedalyah Chaim Reback

Product Marketing

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Tutorial: env0's Extension for Visual Studio Code

Developed out of one of our hackathons, this extension makes it easy to work with your env0 environments, making your development process faster and simpler.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

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OpenTF Joins The Linux Foundation as OpenTofu!

What began as a mere idea and a handful of individuals burning the midnight oil to craft a manifesto just a few weeks ago has swiftly evolved into a full-fledged Linux Foundation project.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder, OpenTofu Steering Committee

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A Beautiful Process: Recap of Reaction to OpenTF

OpenTF became a focal point for extensive media coverage, heated debates, and insightful conversations. In this post, I’ll try to recap some of these, in a way that (I hope) would provide helpful context for people new to this story. 

Igal Zeifman

env0 Marketing, Team OpenTofu

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The OpenTF Repo is Now Public!

The latest milestone in the OpenTF journey is the release of OpenTF’s public repository. Within the first 12 hours, the repo already reached over 2,700 stars...

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder, Team OpenTofu

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OPA Tutorial: Leveraging env0 for Advanced Cloud Policy Management

Learn how you can use env0 to put "OP" in OPA.

Itamar Malka

Engineering Team

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Announcing OpenTF Fork of Terraform

We’re proud to announce an open-source fork of Terraform called OpenTF. We also completed all documents to become part of the Linux Foundation. Details about the next steps and FAQs are inside.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder, Team OpenTofu

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What HashiCorp’s License Change Means for env0 Customers

On August 10th, HashiCorp made an important announcement, signaling a shift in its product licensing strategy. Here's what env0 customers need to know.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder, Team OpenTofu

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The OpenTF Manifesto

Essential building blocks of the Internet, such as Linux, Kubernetes, and Terraform need to be truly open source: that's the only way to ensure that we are building on top of solid and predictable underpinnings.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder, Team OpenTofu

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How to Use Terraform in GitHub Actions

In this post, we'll walk through how GitHub Actions work, how to use them to automate Terraform operations, and how to embrace and enhance your current workflow.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Terraform Init Command: Examples, Tips and Best Practices

One of the foundational commands at the heart of Terraform is terraform init. This command is what sets the stage for all the subsequent operations that you perform with Terraform. It prepares a new or existing directory for Terraform usage by creating initial files, loading any remote state, downloading modules, and installing provider plugins.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Tutorial: Using ArgoCD with Helm Charts

ArgoCD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes applications that uses Git repositories as the source of truth for defining the desired application state. It automates application deployment and lifecycle management, making it easy to understand and audit.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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How to Configure and Manage Terraform Backends

Terraform backends are a native Terraform feature, which saves the state file in a remote location, rather than a local file. Terraform backends make sure that the work on the stack stays true to the state of our resources, and that we don’t run over our colleagues' work.

Avner Sorek

Engineering Team

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Terraform Tutorial: Getting Started with Terraform

An introduction to using Terraform with examples using Microsoft Azure.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Terraform Cloud: Benefits, Key Features, and Examples

Terraform Cloud is a hosted service developed by HashiCorp that provides a collaborative workspace for teams to use Terraform, an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software tool. It enables teams to manage infrastructure provisioning, compliance, and management across various cloud providers, data centers, and services. This tutorial will walk you through the key features and benefits of Terraform Cloud.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Terraform CLI: Terraform Commands, Examples and Best Practices

Terraform CLI is a command-line interface tool that enables you to manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). With Terraform CLI, you can define, provision, and manage infrastructure resources in a human-readable format that can be versioned, reused, and shared across teams.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Terraform 'for' Expression: How to Dynamically Provision Infrastructure

Terraform 'for' expression is widely used, particularly in Terraform Modules. A "For Expression" allows you to create complex type values by transforming other complex type values. This feature is not only beneficial in modules but also in your Main Infrastructure Code.

Gustavo Zanotto

Engineering Team

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Chris' Corner - June 2023

env0's new features this month are simple, yet effective. In this post, we dive into our highlighted feature for June—Running Bulk Operations.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineering

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Terraform Variables Types - Tips, Examples and Beast Practices

Terraform is a powerful infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that enables you to define and manage your cloud infrastructure in a declarative manner. One of the key features of Terraform is the ability to use variables, which allow you to parameterize your configurations and make them more flexible and reusable.Did you know that you could also order Domino's Pizza with Terraform? In this blog post, we will have fun with the Domino's Pizza Terraform provider while exploring the world of Terraform variables. We'll understand how to effectively use them in your infrastructure deployments.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) with Terraform: Tutorial and Examples

Embracing Infrastructure as Code is a key step in your journey to cloud native operations. It also opens the door to approach other aspects of your operations as code, and a great example of this is using code to define and evaluate policy. This post will introduce you to the concepts behind policy as code, and how to use Open Policy Agent (OPA) to implement policy as code with your existing Terraform configurations.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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Terragrunt Tutorial: Examples and Use Cases

Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for keeping your Terraform configurations DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). With Terragrunt, you can easily manage remote states and multiple environments. It also helps you keep your codebase clean and organized.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Atlantis: Terraform Pull Request Automation Guide

Atlantis is a tool that automates Terraform operations through pull requests. It allows developers and operators to collaborate on infrastructure changes without leaving their version control system.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Chris’ Corner - May 2023

env0 has released 3 key features this month, directly helping new and existing customers. One of our features (Private provider registry) has already been covered in a separate blog—and this month's highlighted feature will be Remote state access control.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineering

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Terraform Plan Command: Examples, Tips and Best Practices

Terraform Plan aims to help you review and verify your configuration before applying it. It gives you a chance to catch any errors or inconsistencies in your terraform code, and to make sure that you are not making any unwanted changes to your infrastructure. It also helps you communicate and collaborate with your team members, by showing them what you intend to do and getting their feedback.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Provider Registry

env0’s Provider Registry feature allows users to store Providers in a public or private repository and reference it for use within code. Best of all, you are able to pull different versions of the code with simple changes. When running inside env0 we will even handles the authentication without the need for any additional steps or configuration.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineering

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Terraform Modules Guide: Best Practices & Examples

Infrastructure as Code is first and foremost code, and a chief principle of writing good software is leveraging abstractions to make your code reusable, scalable, and consistent. Terraform modules are the abstraction provided by HashiCorp to take logical groupings of resources and package them together in a reusable object.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

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What is Infrastructure-as-Code? IaC 101

Today, organizations are still figuring out how best to implement new IaC practices in their existing DevOps frameworks. This article covers a variety of options for multiple frameworks to support even the most demanding business-critical environments.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder, OpenTofu Steering Committee

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Which IaC Scanning Tool is the Best?: Comparing Checkov vs tfsec vs Terrascan

In this blog post, we will compare three popular IaC scan tools: Checkov, TFsec, and Terrascan. We will compare them based on their features, performance, usability, and compatibility.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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What is Checkov: Benefits, Key Features, and Examples

Checkov works by scanning IaC files for common security and compliance issues, such as open security groups, unencrypted storage buckets, or missing encryption keys.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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What is tfsec: Benefits, Key Features, and Examples

tfsec is a security scanner for your Terraform code. It performs static analysis of your code and detects potential misconfigurations that could lead to security risks.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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What is Terrascan: Benefits, Key Features, and Examples

Terrascan is a tool that helps you to scan your Infrastructure as Code for security and compliance policy violations. It supports various IaC languages such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Dockerfile, and more.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Comparing Checkov vs. tfsec vs. Terrascan

In this blog post, we examined three of the most popular tools to scan your infrastructure. These are Checkov, tfsec, and Terrascan. We saw the benefits and key features of each tool.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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Chris' Corner - April 2023

In the second iteration of Chris’ Corner, we will review the features released in the month of March.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineering

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Share outputs between IaC stacks

As our codebase becomes more complex, it often becomes an issue to maintain one IaC stack for our entire deployment, and we might think of splitting our IaC stack into smaller, more manageable components, with the relevant IaC for the job. The question is how can we pass outputs between deployment stacks? Read on to learn more.

Eran Elbaz

Engineering Team