Master cloud management

Cloud governance

Multi-cloud

Workflows

The State of Enterprise Cloud Security: Challenges and Solutions

Enterprise cloud security is evolving fast as organizations adopt multi-cloud and hybrid architectures. This post breaks down the biggest challenges in 2025, from misconfigurations to identity risks, and explores proven strategies to strengthen cloud resilience.

The State of Enterprise Cloud Security: Challenges and Solutions

Cloud asset management

Take Control of Enterprise Cloud Cost Management Through Codified Governance

Cloud costs quickly spiral without consistent governance. This guide explains how codifying policies tagging, budgets, guardrails, approvals, drift detection, and automated remediations gives enterprises predictable, controlled, and optimized cloud spend across multi-cloud environments.

Take Control of Enterprise Cloud Cost Management Through Codified Governance

Cloud asset management

Enterprise Cloud Consolidation: A Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Integration

Mergers and acquisitions often leave enterprises with fragmented cloud systems, redundant resources, and governance gaps. This guide explores how to execute cloud consolidation effectively covering strategy, tooling, security, and financial optimization to achieve a unified, efficient post-M&A environment.

Enterprise Cloud Consolidation: A Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Integration

Cloud governance

Enterprise Cloud Governance: Building Control, Accountability, and Cost Discipline at Scale

Enterprises are struggling to maintain visibility and control across sprawling cloud environments. This guide explores how cloud governance frameworks bring structure, accountability, and cost discipline—aligning teams, budgets, and compliance under one unified strategy for multi-cloud success in 2025.

Enterprise Cloud Governance: Building Control, Accountability, and Cost Discipline at Scale

Disaster recovery

Enterprise Disaster Recovery: Building Resilience Beyond Backups for Multi-Cloud Environments

Traditional backups aren’t enough for today’s complex cloud infrastructures. This guide dives into enterprise disaster recovery strategies that go beyond snapshots covering automation, cross-cloud failover, compliance, and resilience frameworks built for multi-cloud environments in 2025.

Enterprise Disaster Recovery: Building Resilience Beyond Backups for Multi-Cloud Environments

Drift detection

Enterprise Drift Management: Eliminating Drift Across Thousands of Unmanaged, Legacy, and Shadow Resources

Cloud drift silently erodes security and compliance in large enterprises. This guide explores how enterprise drift management tools and automation frameworks detect, prevent, and remediate drift across thousands of unmanaged, legacy, and shadow cloud resources restoring control, visibility, and consistency at scale.

Enterprise Drift Management: Eliminating Drift Across Thousands of Unmanaged, Legacy, and Shadow Resources

Cloud asset management

Taming Multi-Cloud Sprawl: How Firefly Redefines Enterprise Cloud Management

Enterprises are struggling with multi-cloud complexity, visibility gaps, and rising costs. This blog explores how Firefly brings unified cloud management, automation, and governance to simplify operations and drive efficiency across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

Taming Multi-Cloud Sprawl: How Firefly Redefines Enterprise Cloud Management

Building an Enterprise AI Strategy in the Cloud with Firefly: 5 Steps to Success

Build a scalable enterprise AI strategy in the cloud with Firefly in five practical steps. This guide walks CIOs, platform teams, and AI leads through planning, secure architecture, data and model governance, MLOps integration, and rollout tactics to accelerate adoption while managing risk and cost.

Building an Enterprise AI Strategy in the Cloud with Firefly: 5 Steps to Success

IaC

AI-Driven Terraform: Modernizing Infrastructure Management

AI-driven Terraform is transforming the way infrastructure is managed, integrating advanced machine learning to automate provisioning, scaling, and monitoring. This article explores how AI enhances Terraform’s capabilities, streamlining workflows, improving efficiency, and ensuring optimal resource allocation in modern cloud environments.

AI-Driven Terraform: Modernizing Infrastructure Management

Cloud governance

RBAC vs ABAC: A Detailed Approach to Cloud Access Control

RBAC and ABAC are two distinct models of cloud access control, each offering unique advantages for managing user permissions. This article dives deep into the differences between Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), providing insights into their applications, benefits, and how they impact cloud security strategies.

RBAC vs ABAC: A Detailed Approach to Cloud Access Control

Cloud governance

Cloud Security Compliance Automation: From Manual Audits to Continuous Assurance

Cloud security compliance is evolving, moving from traditional manual audits to continuous automation. This article explores how automation ensures real-time security and regulatory compliance, reducing risks and enhancing operational efficiency in cloud environments.

Cloud Security Compliance Automation: From Manual Audits to Continuous Assurance

Cloud governance

Cloud Tagging - Strategy, Best Practices, and Firefly’s Role

Explore cloud tagging strategies, best practices, and Firefly's pivotal role in optimizing your cloud resources for efficiency and cost management.

Cloud Tagging - Strategy, Best Practices, and Firefly’s Role

Explore cloud tagging strategies, best practices, and Firefly's pivotal role in optimizing your cloud resources for efficiency and cost management.

Cloud governance

Cloud Infrastructure Management in 2025: A Practical Playbook

Cloud infrastructure in 2025 demands more than routine management. This practical playbook outlines proven strategies for automation, cost optimization, security, and scalability, helping teams future-proof their cloud environments while ensuring reliability and performance in fast-evolving digital landscapes.

Cloud Infrastructure Management in 2025: A Practical Playbook

DevOps

DevOps Best Practices for 2025: Going Beyond the Basics

DevOps is evolving fast in 2025, and sticking to the basics isn’t enough. This guide explores advanced best practices covering automation, culture, security, and innovation that empower teams to deliver faster, collaborate better, and build resilient, future-ready systems.

DevOps Best Practices for 2025: Going Beyond the Basics

IaC

Automate Your GitHub Action Workflows with Firefly Workflows

Manual GitHub Action pipelines slow teams down. Firefly Workflows lets you automate, optimize, and scale your CI/CD pipelines—helping teams ship faster with fewer errors.

Automate Your GitHub Action Workflows with Firefly Workflows

Manual GitHub Action pipelines slow teams down. Firefly Workflows lets you automate, optimize, and scale your CI/CD pipelines—helping teams ship faster with fewer errors.

IaC

Beyond Provisioning: A 2025 Guide to Infrastructure Orchestration with IaC and GitOps

Go beyond provisioning with this 2025 guide to infrastructure orchestration. Learn how IaC and GitOps enable scalable, automated, and reliable cloud ops.

Beyond Provisioning: A 2025 Guide to Infrastructure Orchestration with IaC and GitOps

Go beyond provisioning with this 2025 guide to infrastructure orchestration. Learn how IaC and GitOps enable scalable, automated, and reliable cloud ops.

IaC

Deploying Amazon Bedrock with Terraform

Amazon Bedrock simplifies building generative AI apps, and Terraform makes it scalable. This post walks you through deploying Bedrock with Terraform, covering setup, automation, and cloud best practices for AI infrastructure.

Deploying Amazon Bedrock with Terraform

Drift detection

What 3000+ Terraform Files Taught Us About Cloud Drift

Cloud drift silently erodes infrastructure reliability. After analyzing 3000+ Terraform files, we share what really causes drift, how it hurts DevOps teams, and the practices you need to stop it before it scales out of control.

What 3000+ Terraform Files Taught Us About Cloud Drift

ClickOps

What Is ClickOps in Azure, and How Do You Detect It

ClickOps in Azure may feel convenient, but it often leads to hidden risks and misconfigurations. This guide breaks down what ClickOps really means, why it matters for cloud security, and practical ways to detect and reduce it with automation and monitoring.

What Is ClickOps in Azure, and How Do You Detect It

Cloud asset management

The Real Cost of Cloud Audit Readiness: How Much Time You’ll Save Using Firefly

Preparing for cloud audits is tedious and time-consuming. This post shows how Firefly automates audit readiness and saves engineering teams hundreds of hours.

The Real Cost of Cloud Audit Readiness: How Much Time You’ll Save Using Firefly

Preparing for cloud audits is tedious and time-consuming. This post shows how Firefly automates audit readiness and saves engineering teams hundreds of hours.

Cloud asset management

What ‘Codified’ Cloud Automation Really Looks Like: A Benchmark for 2025

Codified cloud automation isn’t just YAML and Terraform. This benchmark breaks down what leading teams in 2025 actually codify and what they still miss.

What ‘Codified’ Cloud Automation Really Looks Like: A Benchmark for 2025

Codified cloud automation isn’t just YAML and Terraform. This benchmark breaks down what leading teams in 2025 actually codify and what they still miss.

Drift detection

Building Operational Visibility into Google Cloud Console with Event-Driven Drift Detection

Manual changes in Google Cloud Console can introduce hidden risks. This blog shows how to build operational visibility and catch configuration drift using Firefly.

Building Operational Visibility into Google Cloud Console with Event-Driven Drift Detection

Manual changes in Google Cloud Console can introduce hidden risks. This blog shows how to build operational visibility and catch configuration drift using Firefly.

IaC

Cloud governance

FinOps for Terraform: How to Track Cloud Spend Before It Hits Production

This guide shows how to apply FinOps in Terraform by surfacing cost insights, enforcing tagging, and blocking expensive changes before infrastructure hits production.

FinOps for Terraform: How to Track Cloud Spend Before It Hits Production

This guide shows how to apply FinOps in Terraform by surfacing cost insights, enforcing tagging, and blocking expensive changes before infrastructure hits production.

Cloud governance

Why Cloud Governance Tools Fail Without Visibility into Unmanaged Resources

Most cloud governance tools miss unmanaged resources leading to blind spots, policy drift, and compliance failures. Here’s why visibility is key to success.

Why Cloud Governance Tools Fail Without Visibility into Unmanaged Resources

Most cloud governance tools miss unmanaged resources leading to blind spots, policy drift, and compliance failures. Here’s why visibility is key to success.

IaC

Cloud governance

Automating Terraform Security Checks with OPA and Rego Policies

Automating Terraform security with OPA and Rego helps enforce compliance, detect misconfigurations, and shift cloud governance left before deployment happens.

Automating Terraform Security Checks with OPA and Rego Policies

Automating Terraform security with OPA and Rego helps enforce compliance, detect misconfigurations, and shift cloud governance left before deployment happens.

Cloud asset management

Building a Centralized Cloud Resource Management Hub with Backstage Plugins

Learn how to build a centralized cloud resource management hub using Backstage plugins. Unify infrastructure visibility, automate provisioning, and improve service ownership across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes all inside your internal developer portal.

Building a Centralized Cloud Resource Management Hub with Backstage Plugins

Cloud governance

Integrating Workload Identity Federation with Azure DevOps for Google Cloud Resources

Using static service account keys to connect Azure DevOps with Google Cloud may work for quick tests or MVPs but it’s risky at scale. This guide shows how to replace them with secure, short-lived OIDC tokens using Workload Identity Federation, enabling safer, compliant multi-cloud CI/CD.

Integrating Workload Identity Federation with Azure DevOps for Google Cloud Resources

Cloud governance

Integrating Federated Identity Credentials with GitLab CI/CD for Azure Deployments

Storing Azure Service Principal (SP) secrets inside GitLab CI/CD pipelines was a common practice, particularly when you’re just getting started with a POC (Proof of Concept) or MVP. However, it’s no longer the most secure or efficient method as projects scale.

Integrating Federated Identity Credentials with GitLab CI/CD for Azure Deployments

How to Use Agentic AI Frameworks for Terraform Code Generation

Consider a common situation during a service rollout where you're creating a new EKS cluster in a shared VPC, along with required IAM roles, security groups, and endpoint access. To speed things up, you use an AI assistant like GPT-4 to generate the initial Terraform modules for the cluster, networking, and permissions.

How to Use Agentic AI Frameworks for Terraform Code Generation

IaC

Cloud governance

Setting Up Workload Identity Federation Between GitLab CI/CD and Google Cloud

When working with CI/CD pipelines, especially at scale, managing secrets securely becomes a top priority. A common practice in many setups is to store and use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service account keys in GitLab pipelines.

Setting Up Workload Identity Federation Between GitLab CI/CD and Google Cloud

Cloud governance

Workflows

The Best Cloud Cost Optimization Tools for DevOps Engineers in 2025

Explore why managing cloud costs is crucial, core principles of cloud cost optimization, and how tools like Firefly can help in achieving cost efficiency.

The Best Cloud Cost Optimization Tools for DevOps Engineers in 2025

Explore why managing cloud costs is crucial, core principles of cloud cost optimization, and how tools like Firefly can help in achieving cost efficiency.

Workflows

7 Infrastructure Metrics Every DevOps Engineer Should Be Tracking in 2025

Explore the core metrics that actually impact your infrastructure — like saturation, configuration drift, latency spikes, and error budget burn.

7 Infrastructure Metrics Every DevOps Engineer Should Be Tracking in 2025

Explore the core metrics that actually impact your infrastructure — like saturation, configuration drift, latency spikes, and error budget burn.

Workflows

The 8 Best CI/CD Tools for DevOps Engineers in 2025

In this blog, we’ll walk through the 8 best CI/CD tools for DevOps engineers in 2025 and how Firefly extends them with real-time drift detection, compliance scanning, and post-deployment policy enforcement.

The 8 Best CI/CD Tools for DevOps Engineers in 2025

Cloud asset management

Cloud governance

Deploy to Kubernetes Faster with GitOps Argo CD Automation

Early kubectl-based deployments work for small teams, but at scale, they break down—GitOps with Argo CD brings the structure and control you need.

Deploy to Kubernetes Faster with GitOps Argo CD Automation

Early kubectl-based deployments work for small teams, but at scale, they break down—GitOps with Argo CD brings the structure and control you need.

Cloud governance

IaC

Setting Up Workload Identity Federation Between GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Platform

Authenticate GitHub Actions with Google Cloud securely and keylessly using Workload Identity Federation—no service account keys, just short-lived, trust-based access tokens.

Setting Up Workload Identity Federation Between GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Platform

Authenticate GitHub Actions with Google Cloud securely and keylessly using Workload Identity Federation—no service account keys, just short-lived, trust-based access tokens.

Cloud asset management

IaC

Integrating Federated Identity Credentials with Azure DevOps for Azure Resources in a CI/CD Pipeline Azure

Secure your Azure DevOps pipelines and eliminate secret sprawl by integrating Federated Identity Credentials for seamless, token-based authentication with Azure resources.

Integrating Federated Identity Credentials with Azure DevOps for Azure Resources in a CI/CD Pipeline Azure

Secure your Azure DevOps pipelines and eliminate secret sprawl by integrating Federated Identity Credentials for seamless, token-based authentication with Azure resources.

Cloud governance

Managing the Service Lifecycle: Strategies for Handling End-of-Life in Cloud Infrastructure

It's time explore some comprehensive strategies for managing service lifecycles in cloud environments, and deep dive into the best ways for handling EOL scenarios. Think: Kubernetes version upgrades and API deprecations through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and automated governance frameworks.

Managing the Service Lifecycle: Strategies for Handling End-of-Life in Cloud Infrastructure

Workflows

Elevating Infrastructure as Code: How Firefly Supercharges Atlantis for Terraform and OpenTofu Users

For Terraform and OpenTofu users, Atlantis has been key for streamlining pull request automation. But as infrastructure complexity explodes, Atlantis alone can't provide the enhanced visibility, policy enforcement, and cost management cloud practitioners desperately need. Enter Firefly.

Elevating Infrastructure as Code: How Firefly Supercharges Atlantis for Terraform and OpenTofu Users

Cloud asset management

IaC

Cloud governance

How to Manage Resource Dependencies in Pulumi Projects

Learn how to control and troubleshoot resource creation order in Pulumi with outputs, dependsOn, and cross-stack references—so your infrastructure deploys right the first time.

How to Manage Resource Dependencies in Pulumi Projects

Learn how to control and troubleshoot resource creation order in Pulumi with outputs, dependsOn, and cross-stack references—so your infrastructure deploys right the first time.

Drift detection

Cloud asset management

Implementing Continuous Drift Detection in CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions Workflow

Catch infrastructure changes before they cause chaos—learn how to implement continuous Terraform drift detection in your CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.

Implementing Continuous Drift Detection in CI/CD Pipelines with GitHub Actions Workflow

Catch infrastructure changes before they cause chaos—learn how to implement continuous Terraform drift detection in your CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.

Master Prompt Engineering: 10 Battle-Tested AI Prompts for Cloud Practitioners

Although 63% of organizations have adopted AI in some form, only 23% report big productivity gains. The difference? Mastery of prompt engineering. Here's your guide to using battle-tested DevOps prompts to get the most out of AI.

Master Prompt Engineering: 10 Battle-Tested AI Prompts for Cloud Practitioners

Cloud asset management

Cloud governance

IaC

Implementing OIDC Authentication in GitLab CI/CD for AWS Deployments

With OIDC, GitLab dynamically generates short-lived authentication tokens, eliminating the risks of credential leaks, unauthorized deployments, and manual key management.

Implementing OIDC Authentication in GitLab CI/CD for AWS Deployments

With OIDC, GitLab dynamically generates short-lived authentication tokens, eliminating the risks of credential leaks, unauthorized deployments, and manual key management.

Cloud governance

Cloud asset management

Integrating OIDC with Github Action to Manage Terraform Deployment on AWS

Ditch static AWS credentials in your CI/CD pipeline—learn how to integrate OIDC with GitHub Actions for secure, dynamic Terraform deployments on AWS.

Integrating OIDC with Github Action to Manage Terraform Deployment on AWS

Ditch static AWS credentials in your CI/CD pipeline—learn how to integrate OIDC with GitHub Actions for secure, dynamic Terraform deployments on AWS.

Cloud asset management

IaC

Cloud governance

How to Buy Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software

Learn the steps to pick the right platform with our walkthrough of key requirements and evaluation criteria for cloud automation tools.

How to Buy Cloud Infrastructure Automation Software

Learn the steps to pick the right platform with our walkthrough of key requirements and evaluation criteria for cloud automation tools.

Cloud governance

Cloud asset management

Scaling Your Kubernetes Deployments with Helm

Effortlessly scale your Kubernetes workloads with Helm—learn how to automate pod and node scaling while maintaining consistency across environments.

Scaling Your Kubernetes Deployments with Helm

Effortlessly scale your Kubernetes workloads with Helm—learn how to automate pod and node scaling while maintaining consistency across environments.

Cloud asset management

Cloud governance

IaC

Terraform Template Files: Structure and Best Practices

Learn how Terraform template files streamline configuration management by dynamically generating infrastructure settings, reducing manual updates, and ensuring consistency across deployments.

Terraform Template Files: Structure and Best Practices

Learn how Terraform template files streamline configuration management by dynamically generating infrastructure settings, reducing manual updates, and ensuring consistency across deployments.

Workflows

Cloud governance

Terraform & GitOps Workflows: Automating Cloud Infrastructure with Version Control

Discover how GitOps workflows revolutionize infrastructure management by leveraging version control for automation, ensuring consistency, security, and scalability—without manual interventions.

Terraform & GitOps Workflows: Automating Cloud Infrastructure with Version Control

Discover how GitOps workflows revolutionize infrastructure management by leveraging version control for automation, ensuring consistency, security, and scalability—without manual interventions.

Multi-cloud

Cloud asset management

Cloud governance

Firefly Launches Connected Services: Ensuring Cloud Integration Consistency Across Your Organization

Modern cloud infrastructure relies heavily on third-party integrations, like security tools and monitoring services. But maintaining consistency across them is complex. Introducing Connected Services: your integration command center.

Firefly Launches Connected Services: Ensuring Cloud Integration Consistency Across Your Organization

Disaster recovery

Cloud asset management

Choosing Between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform for Disaster Recovery

Explore the key differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to determine which tool best supports your disaster recovery strategy.

Choosing Between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform for Disaster Recovery

Explore the key differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to determine which tool best supports your disaster recovery strategy.

Drift detection

Cloud governance

IaC

Monitoring and Responding to Drift Alerts in AWS Config Recorder

Learn how AWS Config Recorder helps you detect and respond to configuration drift in your cloud environment, ensuring security, compliance, and operational stability.

Monitoring and Responding to Drift Alerts in AWS Config Recorder

Learn how AWS Config Recorder helps you detect and respond to configuration drift in your cloud environment, ensuring security, compliance, and operational stability.

Cloud asset management

IaC

Secret Management in Terraform: Keeping Sensitive Data Out of State Files

Learn how to keep sensitive data out of Terraform state files and protect your infrastructure with best practices for secret management, encryption, and automated security monitoring.

Secret Management in Terraform: Keeping Sensitive Data Out of State Files

Learn how to keep sensitive data out of Terraform state files and protect your infrastructure with best practices for secret management, encryption, and automated security monitoring.

Multi-cloud

Cloud asset management

Migrating Terraform State: Moving State Files Between Backends

Easily migrate Terraform state between backends with this step-by-step guide—learn why state management matters, when to migrate, and how to do it smoothly without breaking your infrastructure.

Migrating Terraform State: Moving State Files Between Backends

Easily migrate Terraform state between backends with this step-by-step guide—learn why state management matters, when to migrate, and how to do it smoothly without breaking your infrastructure.

Multi-cloud

Cloud asset management

IaC

Automating IAM Across Cloud Platforms with Terraform

Learn how to automate IAM policies with Terraform to ensure secure, scalable access control across AWS, GCP, and multi-cloud environments.

Automating IAM Across Cloud Platforms with Terraform

Learn how to automate IAM policies with Terraform to ensure secure, scalable access control across AWS, GCP, and multi-cloud environments.

Sid Smith, Sales Engineer

Cloud asset management

Cloud governance

Own Your Cloud: How to Discover and Inventory Your Entire Cloud Footprint with Firefly

Uncover the full potential of your cloud with Firefly—gain comprehensive visibility, streamline governance, and optimize your multi-cloud environment with actionable insights and unparalleled control.

Sid Smith, Sales Engineer

Own Your Cloud: How to Discover and Inventory Your Entire Cloud Footprint with Firefly

Drift detection

Cloud asset management

Terraform and Kubernetes: Monitoring Drift in Clusters

Discover how to detect and prevent configuration drift in Kubernetes clusters with Terraform, ensuring your resources stay consistent and aligned with your desired state.

Terraform and Kubernetes: Monitoring Drift in Clusters

Discover how to detect and prevent configuration drift in Kubernetes clusters with Terraform, ensuring your resources stay consistent and aligned with your desired state.

Cloud asset management

IaC

Cloud governance

State Management in IaC: Best Practices for Handling Terraform State Files

Master the art of state management in Terraform with best practices for handling state files to ensure consistency, security, and seamless collaboration in your IaC workflows.

State Management in IaC: Best Practices for Handling Terraform State Files

Master the art of state management in Terraform with best practices for handling state files to ensure consistency, security, and seamless collaboration in your IaC workflows.

Cloud governance

Multi-cloud

Cloud asset management

Creating an EKS Cluster through Pulumi

Learn how Pulumi lets you manage cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages for seamless, multi-cloud deployment and automation.

Creating an EKS Cluster through Pulumi

Learn how Pulumi lets you manage cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages for seamless, multi-cloud deployment and automation.

Multi-cloud

Everything-as-code

Cloud asset management

Understanding Policy as Code and How to Implement It in Cloud Environments

Transform cloud governance with Policy as Code: a structured, scalable approach to enforcing consistency, automating compliance, and boosting security across multi-cloud environments.

Understanding Policy as Code and How to Implement It in Cloud Environments

Transform cloud governance with Policy as Code: a structured, scalable approach to enforcing consistency, automating compliance, and boosting security across multi-cloud environments.

Drift detection

IaC

Cloud asset management

Detecting Drift in Terraform for Azure

Drift in Terraform occurs when your infrastructure deviates from its intended state, risking security gaps, compliance issues, and higher costs—learn how to spot and prevent it.

Detecting Drift in Terraform for Azure

Drift in Terraform occurs when your infrastructure deviates from its intended state, risking security gaps, compliance issues, and higher costs—learn how to spot and prevent it.

Cloud governance

Cloud asset management

Using Terraform with AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) for Cloud Governance

Learn how AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) can set org-wide permission limits in AWS, ensuring compliance and security.

Using Terraform with AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) for Cloud Governance

Learn how AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) can set org-wide permission limits in AWS, ensuring compliance and security.

Disaster recovery

Cloud asset management

Implementing Data Replication Strategies for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Discover how to implement data replication strategies in the cloud to safeguard your applications, ensure data availability, and recover from disasters using AWS tools and best practices.

Implementing Data Replication Strategies for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Discover how to implement data replication strategies in the cloud to safeguard your applications, ensure data availability, and recover from disasters using AWS tools and best practices.

Drift detection

Cloud governance

How to Detect Drift in Cloudformation Resources

Learn how to detect, manage, and prevent configuration drift—and discover how Firefly simplifies the process to keep your infrastructure secure, compliant, and cost-efficient.

How to Detect Drift in Cloudformation Resources

Learn how to detect, manage, and prevent configuration drift—and discover how Firefly simplifies the process to keep your infrastructure secure, compliant, and cost-efficient.

Cloud governance

Multi-cloud

Integrating Cloud Governance with CI/CD Pipeline using Terraform

Discover how integrating cloud governance into CI/CD pipelines with Firefly ensures security, compliance, and cost optimization through automation, early detection, and seamless multi-cloud management.

Integrating Cloud Governance with CI/CD Pipeline using Terraform

Disaster recovery

Cloud asset management

Implementing AWS EBS Volume Snapshots for Disaster Recovery with Terraform

Learn how to safeguard your business from disasters with a step-by-step guide to implementing a strategy using AWS EBS Snapshots and Terraform.

Implementing AWS EBS Volume Snapshots for Disaster Recovery with Terraform

Learn how to safeguard your business from disasters with a step-by-step guide to implementing a strategy using AWS EBS Snapshots and Terraform.

Cloud governance

IaC

Creating Reusable Terraform Modules for Cloud Governance

Explore how Terraform modules streamline cloud governance by automating compliance, enforcing security policies, and simplifying infrastructure management across development, staging, and production environments.

Creating Reusable Terraform Modules for Cloud Governance

Disaster recovery

Multi-cloud

Cloud asset management

Building an Automated Disaster Recovery Plan for Multi-Cloud Environments

Learn how to build a robust automated disaster recovery plan for multi-cloud environments, ensuring seamless backups, synchronization, and rapid recovery across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Building an Automated Disaster Recovery Plan for Multi-Cloud Environments

Learn how to build a robust automated disaster recovery plan for multi-cloud environments, ensuring seamless backups, synchronization, and rapid recovery across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Cloud asset management

IaC

Using Terraform Workspaces with Remote State

Explore how using a single Terraform configuration to manage multiple environments, such as development, staging, and production, helps DevOps teams keep these environments consistent.

Using Terraform Workspaces with Remote State

Explore how using a single Terraform configuration to manage multiple environments, such as development, staging, and production, helps DevOps teams keep these environments consistent.

Cloud asset management

Understanding State Locking and Versioning in Terraform

This blog covers the challenges of managing Terraform state files in shared environments and solutions to keep things smooth and reliable. We'll explain why locking the state file is crucial to avoid conflicts and explore the benefits of versioning.

Understanding State Locking and Versioning in Terraform

IaC

Pulumi vs. Terraform vs. CloudFormation: Which IaC Tool is Best for Your Infrastructure?

With the widespread adoption of the cloud among organizations, their developers must choose from Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and OpenTofu. Here's a guide to help you decide what fits your needs and use case.

Pulumi vs. Terraform vs. CloudFormation: Which IaC Tool is Best for Your Infrastructure?

Cloud asset management

DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering: What Is The Difference?

In recent years, we've seen the rise of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and —most recently— Platform Engineering, as key disciplines in modern software development. Here's a breakdown of what they do, how they differ, and how they work together.

DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering: What Is The Difference?

Cloud governance

Disaster recovery

IaC

Auditing Terraform State File: Monitoring and Logging State File Interactions

In this blog, we’ll dive into all things Terraform state file, from the importance of security and auditing, to the best practices that you should follow for detecting any unauthorized changes (like being smart about using versioning and logging).

Auditing Terraform State File: Monitoring and Logging State File Interactions

Disaster recovery

Firefly Asset Mutations: Revolutionizing Disaster Recovery in Cloud Operations The Platform Engineering Way

What do you do if you need to find an asset that’s been deleted? You’ll need to revert back to a previous configuration. Learn how Firefly can help you restore backed-up versions of cloud assets to fix errors and avoid infrastructure disasters.

Firefly Asset Mutations: Revolutionizing Disaster Recovery in Cloud Operations The Platform Engineering Way

Cloud governance

IaC

Cloud asset management

How to Effectively Implement Guardrails in Terraform Deployments with Firefly

The adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools —like the wildly popular Terraform— has revolutionized how platform engineers manage cloud resources, and introduced new risks. Here’s how to implement guardrails in Terraform deployments with Firefly.

How to Effectively Implement Guardrails in Terraform Deployments with Firefly

Drift detection

Cloud asset management

IaC

How to Fix Terraform Drift — And Use Firefly for Ongoing Monitoring

Learn what Terraform drift is, what causes it, and why it's important to find it early.

How to Fix Terraform Drift — And Use Firefly for Ongoing Monitoring

Learn what Terraform drift is, what causes it, and why it's important to find it early.

IaC

Cloud asset management

Migrating from Terraform to OpenTofu: The How and Why

Explore the difference between Terraform and OpenTofu, how to set up OpenTofu in your local machine, the steps to migrate your Terraform state to OpenTofu state, and the challenges faced during migration.

Migrating from Terraform to OpenTofu: The How and Why

Drift detection

How to Identify and Remediate Cloud Configuration Drift (and Implement Best Practices for Prevention)

In this blog, we discuss configuration drift and identify its root causes. Then, we explore why it’s important to spot it early, and how you can prevent and remediate configuration drifts in your infrastructure — with Firefly.

How to Identify and Remediate Cloud Configuration Drift (and Implement Best Practices for Prevention)

Cloud governance

Cloud asset management

What is Cloud Center of Excellence and How Can You Embrace Best Practices?

A CCoE centralizes cloud management, ensuring best practices are followed, resources are optimally utilized, and security standards are upheld.

What is Cloud Center of Excellence and How Can You Embrace Best Practices?

A CCoE centralizes cloud management, ensuring best practices are followed, resources are optimally utilized, and security standards are upheld.

IaC

Cloud asset management

Everything-as-code

AWS Infrastructure-as-Code: Exploring Use Cases, Tools and Services

Explore various IaC tools used to define, provision, and manage AWS Infrastructure-as-Code.

AWS Infrastructure-as-Code: Exploring Use Cases, Tools and Services

Explore various IaC tools used to define, provision, and manage AWS Infrastructure-as-Code.

Cloud governance

Cloud asset management

IaC

What is Cloud Governance? Exploring Principles and Models for Setting Up a Cloud Governance Framework

Learn how to manage cloud environments effectively, ensuring security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

What is Cloud Governance? Exploring Principles and Models for Setting Up a Cloud Governance Framework

Learn how to manage cloud environments effectively, ensuring security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

Multi-cloud

Cloud asset management

IaC

How to employ a multi-cloud strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure and more

Explore how multi-cloud management uses multiple cloud services from different providers to achieve business goals.

How to employ a multi-cloud strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure and more

Explore how multi-cloud management uses multiple cloud services from different providers to achieve business goals.

Workflows

IaC

Setting up Terraform Workflows with Firefly in GitHub

Learn how to configure GitHub Actions to work with Firefly’s Workflows by walking through a sample repository.

Setting up Terraform Workflows with Firefly in GitHub

Learn how to configure GitHub Actions to work with Firefly’s Workflows by walking through a sample repository.

Cloud asset management

Cloud governance

IaC

Cloud Asset Management, Demystified

It's time to bring asset management concepts into the modern cloud era. Explore the benefits of comprehensive cloud asset management (CAM) and learn how Firefly can help you solve today's most common cloud infrastructure challenges.

Cloud Asset Management, Demystified

IaC

Cloud governance

Everything-as-code

What is Infrastructure as Code? A Look at Principles, Use Cases, and IaC Tools

Learn how Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) allows for safe, trackable, and repeatable infrastructure management.

What is Infrastructure as Code? A Look at Principles, Use Cases, and IaC Tools

Learn how Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) allows for safe, trackable, and repeatable infrastructure management.

Drift detection

IaC

Cloud governance

Terraform drift detection guide

Learn what Terraform drift is, what causes it, its consequences, and why drift prevention is important.

Terraform drift detection guide

Learn what Terraform drift is, what causes it, its consequences, and why drift prevention is important.

IaC

Cloud asset management

The complete guide to Terraform state management

Explore Terraform state management in depth, including what Terraform state is, why it's so important, and best practices for storing your state files.

The complete guide to Terraform state management

Explore Terraform state management in depth, including what Terraform state is, why it's so important, and best practices for storing your state files.

IaC

Cloud asset management

An in-depth guide to setting up remote backend

Delve into the intricacies of remote state backends and their crucial role in Terraform infrastructure management.

An in-depth guide to setting up remote backend

Delve into the intricacies of remote state backends and their crucial role in Terraform infrastructure management.

Workflows

IaC

Everything-as-code

Automating IaC with Firefly Workflows

Learn more about Workflows, a way for Firefly to help create or augment an Infrastructure as Code automation process on your preferred CI/CD platform.

Automating IaC with Firefly Workflows

Learn more about Workflows, a way for Firefly to help create or augment an Infrastructure as Code automation process on your preferred CI/CD platform.

IaC

Cloud governance

Everything-as-code

How to keep your cloud up to code

This webinar shares expert insights on getting started with IaC and keeping your cloud up to code!

How to keep your cloud up to code

This webinar shares expert insights on getting started with IaC and keeping your cloud up to code!

Everything-as-code

AI tools for DevOps

In this webinar, we will explore the various AI tools for Devops that utilize AI natural language models to improve the developer experience by automating tedious tasks and assisting with code and configuration generation.

AI tools for DevOps

IaC

Cloud governance

Master IaC and governance strategies

Ready to ditch the duct tape and build a winning cloud infrastructure?In this video we’ll tackle why IaC and governance are essential for going from chaotic cloud to champion cloud!

Master IaC and governance strategies

Ready to ditch the duct tape and build a winning cloud infrastructure?In this video we’ll tackle why IaC and governance are essential for going from chaotic cloud to champion cloud!

Cloud governance

DevSecOps in Azure + GitHub

In this session with Microsoft Reactor, Firefly's Co-founder and CPO, Eran Bibi, shared ways to take advantage of AI in the DevOps world!

DevSecOps in Azure + GitHub

In this session with Microsoft Reactor, Firefly's Co-founder and CPO, Eran Bibi, shared ways to take advantage of AI in the DevOps world!

Cloud governance

Enter the machines - AI for CloudOps

Learn how to get started with AI in Cloud Operations. Explore free and open-source tools alongside real-life case studies for actionable insights.

Enter the machines - AI for CloudOps

Learn how to get started with AI in Cloud Operations. Explore free and open-source tools alongside real-life case studies for actionable insights.

IaC

Cloud governance

Everything-as-code

How to keep your cloud up to code with Firefly

IaC enables immutability, better governance, and greater efficiency. However, getting started can be daunting, often requiring scarce new skills.

How to keep your cloud up to code with Firefly

IaC enables immutability, better governance, and greater efficiency. However, getting started can be daunting, often requiring scarce new skills.

Non-technical

Cloud asset management

Cloud governance

IaC

Cloud asset management with Firefly

Firefly’s cloud asset management solution provides the cloud infrastructure management that cloud users yearn for and traditional CMDB lacks.

Cloud asset management with Firefly

Firefly’s cloud asset management solution provides the cloud infrastructure management that cloud users yearn for and traditional CMDB lacks.

Non-technical

Cloud governance

Drift detection

Using AI-driven automation to keep your cloud aligned to policies

Learn how AI and automation can benefit auditors and others responsible for the integrity of their cloud infrastructure.

Using AI-driven automation to keep your cloud aligned to policies

Learn how AI and automation can benefit auditors and others responsible for the integrity of their cloud infrastructure.

Non-technical

IaC

Everything-as-code

How to apply IaC to your SaaS application

This step-by-step guide walks you through how to codify your SaaS application configurations using Firefly to create Infrastructure as Code.

How to apply IaC to your SaaS application

This step-by-step guide walks you through how to codify your SaaS application configurations using Firefly to create Infrastructure as Code.

Shantanu Das at Infrasity

IaC

Cloud asset management

Creating Kubernetes clusters using GKE and Terraform

A step-by-step tutorial for creating K8s infrastructure on Google Cloud

Shantanu Das at Infrasity

Creating Kubernetes clusters using GKE and Terraform

A step-by-step tutorial for creating K8s infrastructure on Google Cloud

IaC

Cloud asset management

Ned-in-the-cloud uses Firefly to build Terraform modules on new and existing infrastructure

Ned's Terraform Tuesday shows how to build and use modules on both existing and new infrastructure using Firefly.

Ned-in-the-cloud uses Firefly to build Terraform modules on new and existing infrastructure

Ned's Terraform Tuesday shows how to build and use modules on both existing and new infrastructure using Firefly.

Cloud asset management

IaC

Cloud governance

Ned-in-the-Cloud uses Firefly to Discover an Entire Cloud Infrastructure

Ned's Terraform Tuesday covers the importance of finding your entire cloud footprint. He demonstrates this using Firefly.

Ned-in-the-Cloud uses Firefly to Discover an Entire Cloud Infrastructure

Ned's Terraform Tuesday covers the importance of finding your entire cloud footprint. He demonstrates this using Firefly.