Account Setup & Onboarding

To start using Firefly, sign up for an account on the Firefly platform (either via the Get Started link on the website or through an invite from your organization). Once logged in, Firefly will guide you through an Onboarding Wizard. In this wizard, you will connect your data sources and tools so Firefly can scan your cloud environment.

The wizard typically prompts you to integrate:

1. Cloud providers and SaaS – your cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, etc.) or services like Datadog, so Firefly can inventory your assets

2. Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools – for example, connecting Terraform state or CloudFormation stacks to map existing codified resources

3. Version control (GitOps) – linking your Git repositories (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) so Firefly can map resources to code and even open pull requests for changes

4. Notification channels (ChatOps) – such as Slack or Microsoft Teams, to receive alerts

Follow the on-screen steps in each section of the wizard to provide the necessary credentials or permissions for each integration. Once you've added all the integrations you want, click "Take me in" to complete onboarding.

Firefly is a read-only platform, meaning it requires only minimal security-audit permissions to scan your cloud configuration (it can detect a storage bucket's existence but not read the data inside). This non-intrusive, read-only approach ensures that setting up Firefly won't alter your existing resources.