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Drift Detection in IaC: Prevent Your Infrastructure from Breaking
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Drift Detection in IaC: Prevent Your Infrastructure from Breaking

IaC drift detection represents a foundational practice for maintaining infrastructure integrity in cloud environments. This guide explores detection techniques ranging from native tool commands to automated monitoring platforms, prevention strategies that reduce drift through policy-as-code and access controls, and remediation approaches that balance speed with governance requirements.

Jimmy Herbert

Director of Solutions Engineering

Terraform Lookup Function: Examples, Use Cases and Best Practices
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Terraform Lookup Function: Examples, Use Cases and Best Practices

The Terraform/OpenTofu 'lookup' function helps maintain clean, DRY, and reusable code. In this blog, we'll explore the various scenarios where the 'lookup' function can be used, and provide some practical examples for both common and more advanced use cases.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

Terraform Count Meta-Argument: Indexing, Examples and Use Cases
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Terraform Count Meta-Argument: Indexing, Examples and Use Cases

In this blog, we’ll learn more about count, describe its use cases, and show how you can use it to create multiple resources with ease - with or without conditional expressions.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

Meet Cloud Compass: AI-assisted IaC Coverage Audit and Risk Mitigation
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Meet Cloud Compass: AI-assisted IaC Coverage Audit and Risk Mitigation

Cloud Compass enhances your cloud resource management. Using AI-assisted logic, it auto-analyzes IaC coverage blind spots and trends over time, helping you quickly close any gaps.

Omry Hay

env0 CTO & Co-founder, Team OpenTofu

Webinar: Lessons Learned from Managing IaC Across 800+ Environments
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Webinar: Lessons Learned from Managing IaC Across 800+ Environments

Join Sergey Korolev of Rakuten Viber to learn how his team automates and manages Infrastructure as Code, and how mature IaC practices improve developer experience, reduce technical debt, and streamline operations at scale.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

OpenTofu v1.8: A Detailed Look at the Upcoming Release
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OpenTofu v1.8: A Detailed Look at the Upcoming Release

As OpenTofu quickly nears its next stable release, we delve into its new features, discuss their use cases, and explore the challenges they will address for OpenTofu users.

Arel Rabinowitz

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

Terraform Cloud Alternatives: 2026 In-Depth Guide
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Terraform Cloud Alternatives: 2026 In-Depth Guide

Recent events are prompting companies to reconsider their TFC subscriptions. At this critical moment, let’s take a closer look at TFC—explore its features, limitations, and pricing model, and review potential alternatives that might better meet your needs.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

Terraform Import Command and Import Block: Examples, Tips and Best Practices
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Terraform Import Command and Import Block: Examples, Tips and Best Practices

Learn how to use the 'import' command and import blog to move existing resources into your Terraform/OpenTofu state file.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

Terraform Validate Command: Practical Examples and Best Practices
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Terraform Validate Command: Practical Examples and Best Practices

The 'validate' command helps you check the syntax of your Terraform or OpenTofu code before deployment. Learn how to use it effectively for seamless infrastructure provisioning.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

env0 Workflows: Simplifying Advanced IaC Setups and Managing Dependencies
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env0 Workflows: Simplifying Advanced IaC Setups and Managing Dependencies

env0 Workflows provides a structured approach to managing groups of related environments and their dependencies. Learn how you can use it to streamline complex IaC deployments.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

How to Use tenv to Streamline IaC Version Management
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How to Use tenv to Streamline IaC Version Management

tenv is a version manager for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, and Atmos, written in Go. Check out this post to see how it works.

Anastasiia Kozlova

DevOps Engineer, Team tofuutils

Terraform Dynamic Blocks: Advanced Use Cases and Examples
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Terraform Dynamic Blocks: Advanced Use Cases and Examples

Learn how to use dynamic blocks in Terraform and OpenTofu, to create adaptable configurations based on input values.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

Terraform Functions Guide: Complete List with Detailed Examples
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Terraform Functions Guide: Complete List with Detailed Examples

Terraform functions are essential for creating effective infrastructure code. In this blog post, we'll provide a 360° review of Terraform/OpenTofu functions, with practical and detailed examples.

Igal Zeifman

env0 Marketing, Team OpenTofu

New Variable Sets: Boost Efficiency, Reduce Clutter
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New Variable Sets: Boost Efficiency, Reduce Clutter

Variable sets can be linked to an entire Organization or to specific Projects, Templates, Workflows, or Environments, which serves to reduce clutter and ensures maximal flexibility.

Tom Porat

Engineering Team

Environment Output Variables: Easy and Secure Output Piping
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Environment Output Variables: Easy and Secure Output Piping

Our latest feature enhances env0 Workflows, simplifying sharing outputs of one environment with another in the same project or workflow, and storing them securely on the env0 platform. 

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

Terraform Best Practices: State Management, Reusability, Security and Beyond
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Terraform Best Practices: State Management, Reusability, Security and Beyond

In this blog, we will discuss best practices you should follow for writing clean, scalable, and efficient Terraform code, and how to achieve them with env0.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

Terratest vs Terraform/OpenTofu Test: In-Depth Comparison
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Terratest vs Terraform/OpenTofu Test: In-Depth Comparison

Why should you test your IaC? And how does the Terraform Test Framework compare to Terratest? That's what we're going to explore in this article.

Ned Bellavance

Founder, Ned in the Cloud

Take Control of IaC Costs With env0 (Free Whitepaper Inside)
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Take Control of IaC Costs With env0 (Free Whitepaper Inside)

Discover how env0 helps you effectively manage and optimize Infrastructure as Code costs, ensuring efficient cloud spending at scale.

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

Terraform Output Command: Examples, Tips and Best Practices
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Terraform Output Command: Examples, Tips and Best Practices

A practical in-depth guide on Terraform outputs with detailed examples, advanced use cases, and more.

Saksham Awasthi

Developer Relations

Use Our New Navigation to Simplify IaC Project Management
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Use Our New Navigation to Simplify IaC Project Management

We are thrilled to announce an upgrade to the navigation experience on the env0 platform, designed to make project management smoother and more intuitive.

Hadas Weinrib

Product Marketing

OpenTofu v1.7: Enhanced Security with State File Encryption
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OpenTofu v1.7: Enhanced Security with State File Encryption

The launch of OpenTofu 1.7 brings a highly anticipated update: state file encryption. In this post, we take a deep dive into this feature and other new improvements.

Roni Frantchi

env0 Engineering, Team OpenTofu

Terraform Files and Folder Structure: Organizing Infrastructure-as-Code
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Terraform Files and Folder Structure: Organizing Infrastructure-as-Code

Discover best practices for Terraform configuration files and folder structures to optimize your IaC workflow and avoid future complex reorganizations.

Igal Zeifman

env0 Marketing, Team OpenTofu

Terraform Destroy Command: A Guide to Controlled Infrastructure Removal
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Terraform Destroy Command: A Guide to Controlled Infrastructure Removal

In this post, we cover best practices and considerations to ensure the effective and safe execution of 'terraform destroy' within your infrastructure management processes.

Aditya Murali

Developer Relations

Environment Discovery: Automatic Environment Creation from Your Git Workflow
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Environment Discovery: Automatic Environment Creation from Your Git Workflow

With Environment Discovery, you can maintain your directory-based structure in your VCS. This enables you to use your existing approval workflows, take advantage of CodeOwners, ensure auditability, and stay aligned with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices!

Andrew Way

Sales Engineering

Top Infrastructure as Code Tools and Terraform Alternatives
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Top Infrastructure as Code Tools and Terraform Alternatives

In this post, we've selected a range of the most popular IaC tools to provide a quick overview of the IaC ecosystem and help you find the option best suited for your organization or project.

Igal Zeifman

env0 Marketing, Team OpenTofu