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OpenTofu vs. Terraform: A Practical Guide for Enterprise Infrastructure Teams
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OpenTofu vs. Terraform: A Practical Guide for Enterprise Infrastructure Teams

Comparing OpenTofu vs. Terraform for existing infrastructure? Learn why this operational shift is about more than just licensing. Explore migration paths, state management continuity, and how to transition without disrupting production reliability.

Hadas Weinrib

Product Marketing

Terraform CLI: Terraform Commands, Examples and Best Practices
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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.

Sam Gabrail

President, TeKanAid

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

Chris' Corner - June 2023
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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 Engineering

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

Day 0 Environment Creation
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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

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

Why Observability tools are important when using IaC
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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

Engineering Team