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Expanding AI in env0: PR and Error Summaries
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Expanding AI in env0: PR and Error Summaries

env0 adds AI-powered summaries for PRs and errors, making it faster to review changes and troubleshoot failures in IaC workflows.

Hadas Weinrib

Product Marketing

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

Terragrunt Tutorial: Examples and Use Cases
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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

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

Chris’ Corner - May 2023
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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

Provider Registry
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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

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

Chris' Corner - April 2023
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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

Share outputs between IaC stacks
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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

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

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

Michael Levan

Creator, ProdKube

Chris' Corner - March 2023
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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 Engineering

Containerized Application Deployment to Amazon EKS
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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

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

Deploy Amazon Elastic Container Service (AWS ECS) with CloudFormation
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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

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

How to integrate Azure DevOps with env0
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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

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

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

Product Marketing