env0 Blog

Day 0 Environment Creation

env0 works well for customers who already have infrastructure provisioned in the cloud. But what if you need to support infrastructure developers and still need the management layer that env0 provides? We refer to this process of creating new infrastructure through automation as “Day 0” environment creation. This post shows one such way of automating the creation of the env0 environment resources by using our TF provider and some shell magic.

Andrew Way

Director of Sales Engineering

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? 

Eran Elbaz

Product Marketing

Tutorial: How To Set up Prometheus and Grafana with Amazon EKS

In this blog post we’ll walk you through setting up your first monitoring and observability system to gather data about your systems, deployed in AWS cloud using env0.

Mike Levan

Container Orchestration Consultant, Researcher, and Content Creator

Chris' Corner - March 2023

The env0 team has been busy this year—learn more about our favorite env0 feature releases of 2023 so far, including Environment Locking, Remote Plans, Project Level Custom flows, and more.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineer

Why Observability tools are important when using IaC

In recent years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become an increasingly popular approach for managing cloud-based infrastructure—however, with the growing complexity of cloud architecture, it's challenging to monitor and debug issues in real-time, such as CPU spikes or number of requests.

Eran Elbaz

Product Marketing

Containerized Application Deployment to Amazon EKS

Mike Levan

Container Orchestration Consultant, Researcher, and Content Creator

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.

Mike Levan

Container Orchestration Consultant, Researcher, and Content Creator

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

Product Marketing

ServiceNow Integration with env0

Many Enterprise customers have a workflow approval process already in place with tools like ServiceNow. Today, I wanted to show you how you can quickly take advantage of your existing ITSM tooling, and business processes - while enabling self-service infrastructure provisioning with env0.

Andrew Way

Director of Sales Engineering

Deploy Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS) with CloudFormation

For any infrastructure or cloud service deployment, organizations need a way to make the entire deployment process repeatable. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to combine AWS CloudFormation and env0 to create a production-driven experience for AWS Elastic Container Service Amazon ECS.

Mike Levan

Container Orchestration Consultant, Researcher, and Content Creator

Recommendations for Migrating from Terraform Cloud Pari 2

Our recently added remote backend support now allows our customers to pick between three methods of managing state files. With these three options available to our users, we are able to seamlessly migrate both the runs and state to env0 and provide the same governance and compliance for the state. In these examples, we'll show how to migrate your run and state from TFC to env0.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineer

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

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

Software Engineer

How to integrate Azure DevOps with env0

Feature Release: env0 has released an integration with Azure DevOps, allowing teams to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources directly from Azure DevOps. This integration is useful for implementing gitops workflows, providing self-service provisioning for developers, and enforcing governance and compliance controls.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

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

Technical Product Marketer

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 at TeKanAid

How to Implement fine-grained Role-Based Access Control for Your Infrastructure as Code with Custom RBAC Roles

In a world where infrastructure is constantly changing and evolving, it's more important than ever to have tight controls over who can make what changes. Granular RBAC allows you to give each user only the permissions they need to do their job, nothing more. This reduces the potential attack surface of your infrastructure and helps to prevent breaking changes.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

You Need Audit Logs for Your Infrastructure as Code, and They’re Easy to Set Up

In this post we’ll take a look at why auditing is necessary for Infrastructure as Code, the benefits of having an audit trail for Terraform and other IaC frameworks (such as Terragrunt, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and others), and share how you can automate your audit trail easily with env0.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

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 at TeKanAid

CI/CD for App Development vs. CI/CD for Infrastructure as Code

The rise of Infrastructure as Code has revolutionized the management of infrastructure and the way we provision and maintain platforms for application deployment. Rather than manually deploying infrastructure through a CLI or GUI, we can now treat our infrastructure in the same way we treat our applications.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

Top IaC Challenges - Security and Runners

In this video series, we’re looking at the most common barriers to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption. We know that cloud security is a prominent concern for many organizations, so in this video Marino Wijay, Developer Advocate at Solo.io, joins us to share his take on the biggest factors impacting cloud security when implementing IaC.

Rebecca Dodd

Product Marketing

The Ultimate Guide to Managing Terraform Remote State by Implementing a Remote Backend - 2023 Edition

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

Technical Product Marketer

Top IaC Challenges - Extensibility and Integrations

In this video series, we’re looking at the most common challenges with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and scaling. In this episode, we examine the factors around extensibility and integrations when you’re looking to scale your Infrastructure as Code. 

Rebecca Dodd

Product Marketing

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 Engineer

New: Authenticate With Third-Party Services Using the OpenID Connect Integration

Now you can make your deployments even more secure with OpenID Connect support!

Raz Ben Simon

Software Engineer

Managing Terraform Variable Hierarchy

DRY out your Terraform code with some examples of how to build complex variable hierarchies.

Arel Rabinowitz

Software Engineer

Deploying Prometheus to a Kubernetes Cluster using env0

Streamlime the process of deploying a Kubernetes cluster and an application to it.

Yaron Yarimi

Software Engineer

Top IaC Challenges - Video

There are many reasons why teams struggle with adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC). In this five-part series, env0 CEO Ohad Maislish and Developer Advocate Tim Davis discuss the top five reasons we see most frequently.

Justin Nemmers

VP of Marketing

Introducing Chris Noon

Introducing Sales Engineer Chris Noon.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineer

AWS CloudFormation support added

CloudFormation joins Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, and Kubernetes as a core IaC tool supported in env0!

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

Terragrunt Run-All

Now it's possible to deploy multiple Terraform modules in a single command using 'terragrunt run-all'.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

env0 Workflows Get a Power Up

Workflows solve the problem of provisioning complex infrastructure resources that have dependencies, and using multiple frameworks for your infrastructure-as-code.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

DevOps, People, and Process

Let us never forget that DevOps is about culture, people, and process, not just tools or technology. Software may enable good culture and behavior. But technology brings a benefit if and only if it diminishes a limitation. And the most important limitations to address are the explicit and implicit rules that uphold the status quo, or “doing it the way we always have.”

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

Ad-hoc tasks

DevOps engineers sometimes need to perform one-off commands on their Terraform code or state. For example, “terraform import” or “terraform state rm”, or any other Terraform or bash commands. The problem is that it is dangerous to allow users to work directly from a terminal.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

Managing Pulumi IaC with env0

Manage Pulumi defined infrastructure right next to your other IaC code. In this video, we’ll show you how to integrate your Pulumi code into env0.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

Non-Admin API Keys

Generate and maintain role-based access to API keys, providing you the safety of RBAC alongside the convenience of API services.

Kevin "KMac" Damaso

Technical Product Marketer

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

Technical Product Marketer

Export env0 Log Data to SIEM and Monitoring Platforms

You can now integrate env0 with a logging aggregator of your choice. Easily export all of your env0 execution, event, and access details for analysis in your SIEM or monitoring platform.

Mark Phillips

Product Marketer

Multi-Environment Deployment Workflow with env0’s Terraform Provider

Infrastructure is typically built up from multiple layers, starting with the network to the compute layer. In order to deploy your K8s cluster, you typically need your subnets and VPCs defined ahead of time. As I talk to customers about their IaC deployment challenges, I often get asked how env0 can help with orchestrating dependencies amongst these multi-tiered, multi-layered infrastructure deployments.

Andrew Way

Director of Sales Engineering

Automated Drift Detection

env0 is enabling the ability to automatically detect drift and make sure real-world resources in the cloud provider are aligned with Infrastructure as Code files, a huge thing for those Infrastructure as Code users world-wide!

Mark Phillips

Product Marketer

TF Repository Strategies and Structures

AWS GovCloud is limited-access regions intended for US Government Agencies and organizations, and related contractors and vendors.

Avner Sorek

Director of Engineering

Using the env0 Self-Hosted Agent in AWS GovCloud

AWS GovCloud is limited-access regions intended for US Government Agencies and organizations, and related contractors and vendors.

Justin Nemmers

VP of Marketing

Remote State - What is it, and Where Do I Hide It?

If you have deployed anything with an Infrastructure as Code framework (Terraform, Pulumi, etc…) recently, then you have interacted with a state file, and may not have even known it! So, what is the state file? Why is it important? What should you do with it? These are some of the most asked questions when it comes to Infrastructure as Code management. So, let’s get into it!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

The Machine Builder

Before virtualization became commonplace in businesses and enterprises, admins needed to go through lengthy spec-build-procure-install cycles to add new hardware—and thus compute capacity— into an environment.

Justin Nemmers

VP of Marketing

It's not Terraform vs Ansible... Terraform + Ansible = Total Flexibility

We have seen a lot of content that pits Ansible and Terraform against one another. Our challenge is that Ansible and Terraform are two similar tools that are purpose-built to achieve two different goals. Rather than ask about Ansible vs Terraform, we should ask about how these two extremely powerful tools can be used together. Then, coupled with the env0 platform and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, the automation possibilities are nearly limitless.

Mark Phillips

Product Marketer

TFLint with Custom Flows

Developers have compilers and linters to help catch errors while they’re coding. DevOps engineers have something similar for Terraform through TFLint.

Andrew Way

Director of Sales Engineering

Module Registry and Terraform Provider Updates

Private Terraform Modules have become a standard for organizations that place a heavy emphasis on Infrastructure as Code. With that, a need for a central location to manage and collaborate on those private Terraform modules has become apart. This blog will help discover the importance of a Module Registry and highlight the capabilities along side the env0 Terraform Provider.

Sean O'Dell

Director of Product Marketing and Developer Relations

Organization Dashboards

Based upon countless hours of speaking with SREs, DevOps practitioners, Iac Developers, and Management; we have decided to introduce Organization Dashboards that help solve a few areas of aggregate visibility.

Sean O'Dell

Director of Product Marketing and Developer Relations

GitHub Actions + Terratag

A blog by env0 CTO, Omry Hay about using Terratag integrated into GitHub Actions to recursively tag resources in your Infrastructure as Code deployments.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder

Manual Approval Workflow using env0’s Custom Flow and API

You like env0 because it can automate your IaC deployment process, but you also like your existing manual approval workflow through Jira or ServiceNow. With env0’s custom flow and API, we can easily integrate your manual approval workflow with env0’s IaC deployment workflow. This blog will show an example of approving the env0 deployment through your ticketing system.

Andrew Way

Director of Sales Engineering

Recommendations for Migrating from Terraform Cloud

More and more clients are migrating from Terraform Cloud to env0, and questions arise on what POC / Migration process looks like. What about the sensitive data inside the state? Do we need to disable the continuous deployment trigger? Get all your answers here.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Organize and Configure your Account

Coming from Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, and confined and limited to simply just Workspaces, getting started with env0 may raise questions such as: how to organize and configure your account. This post will show ways to structure your env0 environment.

Andrew Way

Director of Sales Engineering

Ebook: Provision and Manage Cloud Resources with IaC

IaC eases recreating environments, minimizes errors, collaborates, and reduces expenditures. But, as IaC is an emerging and evolving technology, many organizations are still figuring out how best to implement new IaC practices in their existing DevOps framework.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

The creation and management of Infrastructure as Code seems to be the most successful when it's handled as a joint effort between the development team and the infrastructure ops team (DevOps). env0 provides you a list of pitfalls to take in consideration.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Time to provide… a Terraform Provider!

Nowadays all is heavy-automated and so, as requested by many of our customers, we now offer a Terraform Provider for the env0 platform! env0 is now extensible with UI, API, CLI, and Terraform Provider.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Introduction to Andrew, Technical Sales Person

env0 proudly introduces Andrew, sales engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Andrew and env0 are very excited to announce that he'll be joining env0 as their first technical sales person. Get to know Andrew here.

Andrew Way

Director of Sales Engineering

Cost Estimation Deployment and More New Features

env0 has worked hard putting new stuff into the platform to make your life easier. Top priority is User Experience and so we do not overload the platform with unnecessary features that get in the way, we added amazing useful features only!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Official Microsoft Build 2021 Sponsor!

Hello, env0 fans! Just a quick announcement that we are super happy to be able to give you. May 25–27 you will find env0 as a sponsor for the Microsoft Build 2021 event!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Terraform Cloud Alternative: A Difference of Opinion

At this point, if you’re familiar with Infrastructure as Code, you surely know what Terraform is. If you’ve used Terraform and tried to manage it at scale, you’ve probably heard of Terraform Cloud. If you’re reading this, you may or may not have heard of env0 before. Today we’re going to go over some of the differences between the two offerings, and highlight some of the key value adds env0 can bring to your Infrastructure as Code workflows.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

New Button Alert!

Details on the release of the GitLab.com and Bitbucket.org VCS integrations!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Can a shift-left reduce OpEx Cloud expenditures?

Migrating to the cloud delivers major cost savings and improved ROI. Transferring IT spending to a pay-as-you-go, operational expense (OpEx) model significantly reduces capital expenses (CapEx), as well as providing other benefits.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder

2021 IaC Forecast: 5 Predictions for the Upcoming Year

I would like to start a tradition - I am going to gather all the discussions I had last year with customers, and will craft my predictions on how DevOps and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2021.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder

Better Together: Checkov and env0

How to run Checkov after your Terraform Plan to shift-left security in your env0 deployments.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

Feature Unlocked: Template Wizard

Hello, env0 fans! Here at env0 we are very focused on the user experience. We are always working to make the experience easier, faster, and more enjoyable. With that in mind, today we want to introduce the Template Wizard!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

DRY those IaC configurations with env0 and Terragrunt! | env0

env0 introduces remote-run support for Terragrunt workflows! We are giving you the ability to completely change the game on the Infrastructure as Code files that you use to deploy and manage environments with our platform! env0 allows you to manage environments from deploy to destroy.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

It’s notification time… Slack Notifications, that is!

No doubt you have probably at least heard of slack before. There are lots of apps and integrations with slack to help it be used as your one-stop-shop for all things with your teams. Well, as of right now, you can now enable env0 notifications right to any slack channel you want!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

New Feature Double-Header

Overview of the two new features just released: Environment Limits and Dropdown Variables. Two new features to help you with the governance of your Infrastructure as Code environment deployments. Environment limits, and dropdown variable lists!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

env0: Now SOC 2 Type II Compliant

env0 is dedicated to bringing you the best platform to manage your Infrastructure as Code environments. We are a SaaS platform, which means you’ll be providing us access to sensitive credentials and data. We know that is a big responsibility, and we take that very seriously. We are pleased to have completed the process and obtained our SOC 2 Type II report.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder

Introducing… Teams, now available in env0!

Hello, env0 fans! I wanted to take a quick few minutes to introduce you to our newest feature… Teams! This is the latest addition to the ongoing improvement of our Role-Based Access Control in the env0 platform.

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

And the winner is… env0!

Hello, all! As you may have seen, I made a job change… Starting today! I left an awesome job as employee number 23-thousand-something at a large company that everyone in the industry was aware of, to start a new adventure as employee number 9 at a tiny startup that not so many people have heard of, yet. That company is env0!

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

We’re Opensourcing Terratag to Make Multicloud Resource Tagging Easier

env0 is open sourcing Terratag - a CLI tool that enables users of Terraform to automatically create and maintain tagging across their entire set of AWS, Azure, and GCP resources. It enables you to easily add dynamic tags to your existing Infrastructure-as-Code.

Roni Frantchi

Director of Engineering

Making Continuous Deployment of Terraform code easier with env0

Implementing a Continuous Deployment flow is a very common and important way of allowing developers to be as productive as possible. In this guide I will show you how to easily create a CD pipeline using env0

Arel Rabinowitz

Software Engineer

Web Application Preview Environments

Per-pull request environments for the front-end are commonly called “Preview environments” and can be achieved in many ways, one of which is using Terraform. Rolling this out on your own, will give you better control over your infrastructure, allowing you to create preview environments which are closer to your production environment.

Avner Sorek

Director of Engineering

Introducing the env0 CLI

At env0 we know how important workflows are for developers, which is why we’re excited to announce the brand new env0 CLI! Just like our GUI at env0.com and our API, you can make use of the features and capabilities of env0 through the CLI to build your own perfect workflow.

Yaron Yarimi

Software Engineer

Managing Kubernetes Environments using Namespaces and Terraform

Kubernetes is the "go to" for orchestrating containers but managing multiple environments in a single cluster can get tricky. We're diving into how you can easily use namespaces and Terraform to manage lots of environments for many users.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder

Why You Should Be Using Per-Pull Request Environments (and how!)

Thanks to Infrastructure as Code, it’s easy to get rid of your traditional staging environments and start using a dynamic, dedicated environment for each pull request. Adopting per-pull request environments will help you shorten feedback loops, reduce bottlenecks and conflicts, and increase your team’s velocity.

Avner Sorek

Director of Engineering

Introducing Environment Scheduling

Scheduling with env0 allows you to easily and consistently deploy, or destroy, your cloud environments on your pre-determined schedule, and with no manual intervention

Yaron Yarimi

Software Engineer

Creating a Maintenance mode for your API Gateway with Terraform

In a modern application there’s also a public (or private) API that also needs to have a maintenance mode. Let’s see how we can do that using Terraform on API Gateway. 

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder

Introducing Cost Over Time

Giving your dev team the freedom to run cloud environments has never been easier, thanks to IaC and env0’s environments-as-a-service platform. Your developers will love the freedom of self-service cloud environments, your infrastructure team will love the governance, but how will your CFO react?

Avner Sorek

Director of Engineering

Building a "Maintenance Mode" with Terraform and Github Pages

Even the most highly available applications from the most experienced providers sometimes need to be able to be taken offline for a short period of time. Learn how to do it using Terraform and Github pages.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder

How Infrastructure as Code is (forcing) a Revolution in Cost Management

With Infrastructure as Code (IaC) driving the third datacenter revolution it's creating a whole new need and approach to cost visibility and management.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder

The env0 public beta is now live

I’m excited to announce that the public beta of env0 is now live!

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder

From “Feature branches” to “Feature environments” with Terraform

When developing for the cloud, separate branches aren't enough - you need full separate environments for whatever you're working on.

Avner Sorek

Director of Engineering

The Cloud Revolution — A Developer’s Timeline

An overview of the main trends that have pushed the Cloud industry — and the world — forward, in the past decade and a half.

Ohad Maislish

CEO & Co-founder