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A guide to the Terraform state file
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A guide to the Terraform state file

Learn the essentials of Terraform state file management with this in-depth guide. Uncover best practices, learn how to handle state file locking and troubleshooting, and keep your infrastructure secure and efficient.

Mattias Fjellström

Developer Relations

Terraform 'for' Expression: How to Dynamically Provision Infrastructure
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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

Terraform Variables Types - Tips, Examples and Beast Practices
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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

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

Atlantis: Terraform Pull Request Automation Guide
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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

Terraform Plan Command: Examples, Tips and Best Practices
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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

Terraform Modules Guide: Best Practices & Examples
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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

What is Infrastructure-as-Code? IaC 101
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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

env0 CTO & Co-founder, Team OpenTofu

Comparing Checkov vs. tfsec vs. Terrascan
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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

What is Terrascan: Benefits, Key Features, and Examples
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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

What is tfsec: Benefits, Key Features, and Examples
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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

What is Checkov: Benefits, Key Features, and Examples
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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

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

env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure
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env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure

Plan and Apply on PR
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Plan and Apply on PR

Many organizations work almost exclusively in their VCS. For these types of GitOps-style workflows, having to change from their VCS to another platform to handle IaC deployments was both time consuming, and represented an unnecessary distraction. Now, with PR Comment Commands, DevOps engineering can seamlessly interact with their env0 IaC deployment and management platform without ever leaving GIT.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Product Marketing

Deploying Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS) with Terraform
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Deploying Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (AWS EKS) with Terraform

When you’re deploying any type of code, whether it’s application code or infrastructure code like Terraform, you want an automated way to deploy it. Aside from application and infrastructure automation workflow, you also want a way to manage certain aspects of how you’re deploying your environment. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to deploy an AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster with Terraform using env0.

Michael Levan

Creator, ProdKube

How to use Terraform locally with the env0 platform
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How to use Terraform locally with the env0 platform

Under pressure to use an automated IaC tool but don’t want to deal with the overhead of pushing code for every change? Here’s a step-by-step look at how to use Terraform locally and still have access to all the benefits of the env0 platform.

Eran Elbaz

Engineering Team

Recap: 2023 Infrastructure as Code Roundtable
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Recap: 2023 Infrastructure as Code Roundtable

A new year and tricky economic times seemed like the perfect opportunity to gather some IaC experts for a conversation about hiring challenges, where we’re headed, and doing more with less. In case you missed our webinar (link), here’s a bit of what I learned in my conversation with Brandt Meyers, enterprise architect with MGM Resorts International, Kat Cosgrove, lead developer advocate at Dell, and Chris Short, senior developer advocate at AWS.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder

Infrastructure as Code is a Creative Job
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Infrastructure as Code is a Creative Job

Some art forms are not appreciated for their aesthetic value, like music, or literature and poetry. Yet, some ways of sharing such artworks are with a written document, e.g. music sheets and lyrics pages for songs. These art forms evolved as well and new genres of the written word came to be. One of those genres is code.

Sagi Laufer

Engineering Team

Top 4 Terraform Plugins to Integrate with your Infrastructure-as-Code Workflow in 2023
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Top 4 Terraform Plugins to Integrate with your Infrastructure-as-Code Workflow in 2023

Terraform alone isn't enough. To ensure best practices, questions such as "How do we enforce policies?", "How do we lint our code?", and "How do we harden infrastructure security?" must be answered. Here are the top 4 essential Terraform tools that you should consider using in 2023 to enhance your infrastructure management process.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Product Marketing

Manage on-prem VMware vSphere with Terraform and env0
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Manage on-prem VMware vSphere with Terraform and env0

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is widely used to deploy into clouds like AWS, Azure, and GCP. It can also be used to manage on-premises VMware vSphere infrastructure. This step-by-step walkthrough and video tutorial shows you how to use env0 with a self-hosted agent to manage on-premises VMware infrastructure directly.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

Video Tutorial: How to Migrate from Atlantis to env0
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Video Tutorial: How to Migrate from Atlantis to env0

In this video, we'll go through some background on Atlantis and then show you how to migrate from Atlantis to env0, including using the env0 remote backend for Terraform state storage.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

Manage Terraform Remote State Using Remote Backend
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Manage Terraform Remote State Using Remote Backend

You can now use env0 as your remote backend for Terraform state storage, including migrating your existing remote state from other platforms to env0.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Product Marketing

How to make managing multiple Terraform environments easier
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How to make managing multiple Terraform environments easier

How many of you have started with Terraform and discovered you need the same code to build multiple environments? Perhaps a dev, stage, and production environment? After researching Workspaces, Branches, and Terragrunt, you aren’t completely satisfied and want to know if there is another way. If you are here, I’ll assume that’s you!

Chris Noon

Sales Engineering

Managing tfvars Files and Terraform Variable Hierarchy
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Managing tfvars Files and Terraform Variable Hierarchy

Learn more about Terraform variables, terraform module variables, and ways to DRY out your code with some examples of how to build complex variable hierarchies.

Arel Rabinowitz

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu