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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

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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

Director of 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

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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

VP Marketing

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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

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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

Software Engineer

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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

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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

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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 Overview

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 at TeKanAid

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What is 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 at 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

Director of Engineering

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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 at TeKanAid

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What is Terraform CLI?

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 at 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

DevOps Engineer

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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 Engineer

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How to Use Terraform Variables: Use Cases and Examples

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 Engineer

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Terraform Plan: Examples of How it Works

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 at 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 Engineer

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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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Infrastructure as Code 101: What Is it, and Why Does It Matter?

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

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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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 Engineer

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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

Product Marketing

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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

Technical Product Marketer

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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

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Containerized Application Deployment to Amazon EKS

In this tutorial we'll go over how to enable repeatable, effective, straightforward application deployments by automatically deploying Kubernetes resources to an Amazon EKS cluster. 

Michael Levan

Creator, ProdKube

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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

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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

Product Marketing

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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.

Michael Levan

Creator, ProdKube

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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

Software Engineer

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Engineer

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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

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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

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Introducing Chris Noon

Introducing Sales Engineer Chris Noon.

Chris Noon

Sales Engineer

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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GitHub Actions + Terratag

Use Terratag integrated into GitHub Actions to recursively tag resources in your Infrastructure as Code deployments.

Omry Hay

CTO & Co-founder

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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

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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

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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

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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

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New Button Alert!

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

Tim Davis

DevOps Advocate

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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