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Learn about the latest env0 features, IaC best practices, and how-to tutorials.
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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.
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The Open Source Summit this year really came at quite the time. These are just a few of its many highlights.
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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.
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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.
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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.Â
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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...
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OPA Tutorial: Leveraging env0 for Advanced Cloud Policy Management
Learn how you can use env0 to put "OP" in OPA.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Terraform Tutorial: Getting Started with Terraform
An introduction to using Terraform with examples using Microsoft Azure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.