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Environment Discovery

Automatically create, plan, deploy and destroy Environments in env0 by simply creating pull requests within a preconfigured directory structure

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Environment Discovery

Environment Discovery in env0 enables teams to identify, import, and manage infrastructure environments - whether dynamically created during development workflows or existing infrastructure deployed outside env0. This feature is foundational to streamlining DevOps practices, increasing governance, and maximizing infrastructure visibility.

Why Environment Discovery Matters

Many teams manage a mix of ephemeral and long-lived environments across their cloud platforms. Without centralized management, these environments can lead to configuration drift, governance issues, and operational inefficiencies.

env0's discovery capabilities are designed to:

  • Provide centralized visibility into all environments.
  • Simplify the onboarding of infrastructure deployed outside env0.
  • Support automated workflows for previewing and validating changes.
  • Enforce policies and controls across all discovered environments.

Discovery Use Cases

env0 supports two primary workflows for discovering and managing environments:

1. Creation per Pull Request

This feature automatically provisions an environment for each Git pull request. It integrates seamlessly with your CI/CD workflows, making it ideal for:

  • Previewing changes before merging to the main branch.
  • Enabling stakeholder reviews in an isolated environment.
  • Automatically destroying environments after merge to optimize resource usage.

Learn more: Creation per Pull Request

2. Onboarding

This process allows you to import externally deployed Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environments—such as Terraform or Terragrunt projects—into env0. These environments were not originally deployed using env0 but are brought under its management for better governance and automation.

Use cases include:

  • Onboarding teams with pre-existing infrastructure into env0.
  • Managing and tracking environments that were deployed manually or via other tools.
  • Enforcing policies, visibility, and consistency across imported environments.

Learn more: Mass Import (Onboarding)

Next Steps

Choose the method that aligns best with your team's infrastructure practices—or use both to ensure comprehensive environment coverage and control.

For step-by-step guidance, visit the documentation pages linked above or contact our support team.

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