Terraform Infrastructure Management: The Resource Hub
Your definitive, bookmarkable resource for making cloud infrastructure management with Terraform less painful.
The Day-to-Day Challenges You
Face Using Terraform? Solved.
Most DevOps and Platform Engineering teams aren't made up of Terraform experts. But it doesn't have to be as hard as it is to manage infrastructure using Terraform.
Here's a look at today's most common infrastructure management challenges Terraform users face, plus proven fixes from practitioners.
Everything you need to simplify infrastructure management using Terraform
Real-World Wins at Scale: Why Firefly?
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"[At one point we were] migrating our build servers from an on-prem data center to AWS, using a feature that launches an Ami. But the Ami definition that we were using was not set up to remove the volumes. So we had 50 or 100 instances getting launched every day: each leaving its volumes behind, growing exponentially. That's behind us now."
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"I would highly recommend Firefly for any team who wants to have a centralized cloud asset catalog, across all vendors, that also helps you move faster, build more advanced solutions, and improve overall engineering efficiency."
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The Firefly platform has been a game changer in making sure that all of our resources, our infrastructure, and our stacks were committed to code â in case we needed to recover that, or even make changes to it live.
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With Firefly, weâve simplified and sped up deployment, and automated Terraform code generation for our cloud resources. When we deploy new resources, we're not worried about missing pieces, because we know Firefly will catch them.
Read the case study âThe right answer isn't always "just use HCP Terraform". In fact, hereâs when you shouldnât:
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If you are certain that you have full visibility of your assets, even across multi-cloud environments
Your cloud is constantly scanned for issues, and you already know what percentage of your cloud is codified in IaC and unmanaged, plus what has drifted from Terraform. Everything is well-documented in case of disaster.
Compare Firefly to HCPÂ Terraform âIf you love adding yet another tool to your existing tech stack, or relying on an additional CI/CD platform that doesn't integrate into your current workflow
For organizations where Firefly isnât a fit, IaC automation is simply not a priority.
See Firefly at Work âIf naive codification without support for dependencies or modules is âgood enoughâ
You also may need to be a fan of doing unnecessary manual work instead of using templates (or modules), or enjoy using crappy code that doesn't follow best practices.
See Firefly at Work âIf not having any asset history or change log makes you feel like a daredevil, and you enjoy the challenge of solving problems when you can't see what changes were made, or who made them
Your team doesnât care to be able to roll back to previous versions, and already feels confident in their ability to pass auditing and do troubleshooting as is.
See Firefly at Work âIf, for your team, ensuring that deployments and configurations are within policy is more effective when handled manually
In this scenario, your DevOps engineers are uncharacteristically impervious to human error.
See Firefly at Work âIf, in the event of an incident, your engineers would rather re-create your configurations than keep them centrally documented
Chaos is the spice of life, and you believe that redoing work is the cornerstone of positive morale.
See Firefly at Work âThinking it might
be time to replace
HCP Terraform?
01
Scanning
TFC workspaces and projects
02
Creating
Corresponding Firefly projects and workspaces
03
Migrating
Terraform state
04
Modifying
Backend configuration files
05
Running
In your IaC pipelines with Firefly
Resources for diving even deeper
How to Use Agentic AI Frameworks for Terraform Code Generation
Ned in the Cloud Explains:Â Terraform Module Adoption with Firefly
Explore the Buying Criteria for Cloud Infrastructure Automation Tools
Terraform Template Files: Structure and Best
Practices
Migrating from Terraform to OpenTofu: The How
and Why
Understanding State Locking
and Versioning in
Terraform
Enterprise Infrastructure Requires Enterprise-Ready Solutions
When your infrastructure supports billions in revenue and thousands of employees across global ops, you can't afford to manage it with platforms that canât scale or integrate with your existing stack. Firefly offers total enterprise cloud management control across your cloud providers, IaC frameworks, and SaaS apps, like Okta and Datadog.