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We've reorganized the Atmos documentation to better serve both newcomers and experienced users. Here's what changed and why.

We've added comprehensive migration guides to help teams adopt Atmos regardless of their starting point.

This release brings documentation improvements to Atmos, making it easier to understand and use Terraform commands. We've focused on comprehensive command documentation and automated screengrab generation.

When you deploy infrastructure across multiple environments—dev, staging, production—you need a way to manage which version of each component runs where. Maybe your VPC module in dev is testing new CIDR ranges, while production stays on the stable version until you're confident the changes work.

That's version management: deciding how different versions of your infrastructure components flow through your environments.

The obvious answer—pin every version in every environment—turns out to optimize for the wrong thing. Strict pinning creates divergence by default: environments drift apart unless you constantly update pins. It weakens feedback loops because lower environments stay on old versions, hiding cross-environment impacts. And at scale, you face PR storms from automated dependency updates.

So what's the right approach? It depends. We've documented these strategies as design patterns—proven approaches that optimize for different goals. Some prioritize convergence and fast feedback; others prioritize control and reproducibility. The best choice depends on your organization's culture, team size, and how you already think about software delivery.

We've added comprehensive documentation for all 35 Terraform commands in Atmos, making it easier to understand how to orchestrate Terraform with stack-based configurations. Each command now has dedicated documentation with usage examples, arguments, flags, and integration details.

We've published two comprehensive guides to help you adopt and integrate atmos auth into your workflows: migrating from Leapp and configuring Geodesic for seamless authentication.

We're excited to launch the Atmos Changelog—your go-to source for feature announcements, technical deep dives, and best practices for managing cloud infrastructure at scale.