The Firefly Buzz - September 2024

Hi There??,

As the season shifts, we’re thrilled to bring you the latest enhancements and features at Firefly. This month, we’re focusing on giving you even more control and visibility into your cloud environments, so you can better streamline your operations and fortify your infrastructure. Dive in to discover how these updates can empower your DevOps team to optimize asset management and ensure seamless compliance.

Product Updates

Workflows Tags Coverage & Guardrails Tags Enforcement

You can now easily view the tagging coverage of your resources, including the percentage of tagged assets and detailed information on untagged ones. This feature also allows you to set Guardrails that block deployments if required tags are missing, providing clear feedback on what needs to be corrected.

This streamlined approach ensures consistent tagging, improves resource management, and helps meet compliance standards effortlessly. Check our blog on this subject: Shift-Left Tagging: Enhancing Cloud Governance with IaC and Firefly

Workflows Instant Error Remediation

Introducing a new AI-powered feature that resolves errors during the plan or apply stages of your deployment. When an error occurs, our AI provides targeted suggestions and code changes to quickly remediate the issue.

This feature is designed to save you time and simplify troubleshooting by delivering immediate, context-aware solutions. With AI-generated insights, you can resolve issues more efficiently, ensuring smoother and more reliable deployments.

Workflows Comprehensive Run Logs

A newly enhanced run details view means you get full visibility into the logs for every stage of your Terraform runs. You can now easily access and analyze logs for the init, plan, and apply phases in one centralized location. This comprehensive view simplifies troubleshooting and offers valuable insights into your infrastructure setup. With color-coded logs and seamless navigation, you'll have the tools you need for efficient infrastructure management.

Mutations

We’re expanding the power of Mutations! Now, alongside your cloud assets, you can track and monitor configuration changes for Okta and DataDog with the same ease and precision. Whether it's identity management or monitoring infrastructure, Mutations ensures you have full visibility into configuration revisions across these critical platforms.

Company Updates

Watch Webinar?// The Cloud Platform Blindspot: Understanding IaC Coverage

As cloud platforms evolve, it's no longer enough to simply implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions; optimizing for full coverage is essential for scalability, compliance, and overall cloud efficiency. View Recording.

Blog Post // How to Balance AI Innovation and Tech Debt in the Cloud

Tech executives today are telling their engineering teams to make use of AI now, with little regard for how it is implemented in their systems. For those managing cloud infrastructure, it's creating AI tech debt at an unprecedented scale. Read more.

Watch Webinar?// Is Terraform Dead? Evaluating Your IaC Strategy in an Evolving Tooling Landscape

With Terraform's license changes and new players entering the field, now is the time to reassess your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategies. View Recording.

Thanks for reading!

-The Firefly Team