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Comparing Pulumi and Terraform: Which Is Better?

Learn about Terraform vs Pulumi, and their pros, and cons. Also, see a detailed comparison to choose the best IaC tool between them.

What if DevOps tools looked like humans?

Have you ever wondered how DevOps tools could be brought to life? Well, imagine no more! With the power of AI image generators, we can now turn those abstract concepts into human representations that are not only easier to understand but also visually appealing.

A primer on Infrastructure as Code

Our 2023 State of IaC Report is live, but for those less familiar with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), here’s a quick primer.

No Chance Event! How We Built Our Event-Driven Architecture

The event-driven architecture pattern is a popular asynchronous architecture pattern that pushes information as events happen. When building an event-driven platform that requires big data, event aggregation is a good practice to reduce alert fatigue, not consume too many resources, and be cost effective. In this blog we'll talk about event-driven architecture in cloud operations and how to use Dynamo Streams for event-driven Lambda.

Terraform Modules for Advanced Users

Terraform Modules have changed the game for codifying resources, bundling services, components, and enabling easy cloud infrastructure governance in the long run. The framework makes it truly simple to connect more common and proprietary resources through publicly available and maintained modules alongside custom-built modules. In this post, I'll walk you through some of the more advanced use cases for Terraform Modules.

Introducing AIaC - AI-powered IaC Generator

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our new open-source project: AIaC - Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure-as-Code Generator. This project is based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT model which allows users to generate code using natural language.

Doing DevOps Like Skynet with ChatGPT

ChatGPT has been dominating all of our feeds over the last week, and blowing people's minds. We took it for a test drive to see if it could do DevOps...you gotta see this in action.

Cloud Asset Management: Lessons Learned from the Finance Industry

In this post, I take a look at financial and cloud asset management side by side, and examine some of the fundamentals––from a business, security, and risk management perspective––that can make us better asset managers. By Ido Neeman, Co-founder and CEO of Firefly.

Go CDK! What this Means for the World of IaC

CDK has landed, and the AWS community is hyped, but what exactly is CDK, how it works, and what does it mean for the world of Infrastructure-as-Code?

How to Govern Terraform States Using GitLab Enterprise

With the mass adoption of Terraform and becoming the de facto tool for developers to build, and manage their cloud infrastructure at scale, most companies today, who rely heavily on Terraform for their infrastructure management, choose to do so with an orchestration tool. In this blog, we'll review the alternative way to govern Terraform States using Gitlab Enterprise.

Eran Bibi will explain how to build a successful Platform Engineering team at PlatformCon

Eran Bibi, our Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, will join leading platform practitioners and pioneers at the first-ever PlatformCon. His talk draws from nearly a decade of experience in DevOps and Cloud and building successful platform engineering teams at unicorns and global companies.

Codify your SaaS Apps: The Answer to the Unmanaged SaaS Jungle

When we adopt SaaS tools, we tend to see them as just that–tools, and not what they eventually actually are: additional siloed, unmanaged clouds with their own proprietary inventory of services, objects and resources.

Foresee Implications of Any Change to Your Cloud with Firefly’s HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Run Tasks Integration

Firefly's integration with Terraform Cloud run tasks helps cloud teams cast a cloud safety net and foresee the implications of any change to the cloud in other assets before deployment - making it possible to keep moving fast without breaking your cloud.

Introducing ValidIaC for Infrastructure-as-Code Best Practices in Code, Security, Visibility, and Cost

Legacy in Your Cloud: Top AWS Unmanaged Resources That You Should Know About

You probably have plenty of AWS unmanaged resources you don't even know about. Learn which are the most common ones so you can avoid the same mistakes.

Building With Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Better Policy as Code

Dive into a new way of thinking about Policy as Code. Learn to leverage OPA for learning deep insights about your systems, their resource utilization, and more.