Pulumi for AWS: Automate, Secure, and Manage Your Cloud

Aaron Kao Aaron Kao Gavin Johnson Gavin Johnson
Pulumi for AWS: Automate, Secure, and Manage Your Cloud

Pulumi is excited to be at AWS re:Invent this week, where we’re showcasing our broad and deep support for AWS across all our products. From automating infrastructure with Pulumi IaC to securing secrets with Pulumi ESC to managing cloud assets with Pulumi Insights, Pulumi makes AWS a competitive advantage. Whether you’re a developer, DevOps pro, or platform engineer, Pulumi delivers the tools you need to build and manage modern cloud applications with ease.

Stop by the Pulumi re:Invent booth #370 this week to chat with experts on the Pulumi team. If you can’t make it to re:Invent, join our workshop, Accelerating Platform Engineering with Pulumi on AWS, on December 11, 2024, to see how Pulumi can enhance your cloud operations on AWS.

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Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes: Bridging Cloud and On-Premises

Josh Kodroff Josh Kodroff
Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes: Bridging Cloud and On-Premises

AWS has introduced a new feature for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS): Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes. This addition to the Amazon EKS Hybrid/Edge portfolio allows organizations to maintain their Kubernetes control plane in AWS while running workloads on-premises or at the edge. This hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds - AWS’s reliable and scalable control plane management combined with the flexibility to run workloads wherever they make the most sense for your business.

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DevSecOps Game-Changer: Security Automation That Delivers Business Results

Sara Huddleston Sara Huddleston
DevSecOps Game-Changer: Security Automation That Delivers Business Results

Organizations are under constant pressure to deliver new products and features faster than ever. But speed alone isn’t enough—businesses must also navigate the complex challenges of ensuring security and managing infrastructure costs effectively.

Enter DevSecOps - the strategic integration of security practices into the DevOps workflow. By automating security processes, organizations can achieve improved speed, scalability, and business impact, all while ensuring security remains a priority.

Tivity Health, a leading health and fitness solutions provider, has embraced this DevSecOps approach using Pulumi, a modern infrastructure as code (IaC) platform. During PulumiUP 2024, David Giambruno, Tivity Health’s VP of Engineering and DevOps, shared how, by leveraging Pulumi, he led the transformation that continuously drives remarkable results in speed, cost savings, and security.

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Fargate vs EC2

Adam Gordon Bell Adam Gordon Bell
Fargate vs EC2

Building an EKS cluster requires choosing how your containers will actually run - either on EC2 instances you manage or through AWS Fargate’s pod-by-pod approach. The differences can be pretty dramatic in practice. I’m setting up a demo cluster right now using Pulumi, so let me show you what I mean:

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YAML, Terraform, Pulumi: What’s the Smart Choice for Deployment Automation with Kubernetes?

Engin Diri Engin Diri
YAML, Terraform, Pulumi: What’s the Smart Choice for Deployment Automation with Kubernetes?

YAML and Kubernetes go together like peanut butter and jelly. While Kubernetes objects can be defined in JSON, YAML has emerged as the de facto standard.

It’s often the first tool developers encounter when diving into Kubernetes, and for good reason - its human-readable format makes it the preferred choice in most tutorials, documentation, and even production deployments.

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Announcing dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments

Komal Ali Komal Ali Iaroslav Titov Iaroslav Titov
Announcing dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments

We’re excited to announce dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments! This new feature is designed to significantly speed up deployment times by reducing dependency installation time by up to 80%, ensuring faster and more efficient workflows for every Pulumi user.

When using Pulumi Deployments, installing dependencies can be a time-consuming part of a deployment. With dependency caching, Pulumi can reuse previously installed dependencies, allowing your deployments to skip redundant installation steps and focus on the task at hand. This optimization is especially helpful for frequent deployments, reducing both time and compute resources.

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Pulumi's Latest Kubernetes Updates from KubeCon North America

Gavin Johnson Gavin Johnson
Pulumi's Latest Kubernetes Updates from KubeCon North America

Pulumi is excited to be at KubeCon North America this week, the premier event for all things Kubernetes and cloud-native. KubeCon is the gathering place for developers, enterprises, and cloud native experts to meet and further the education and advancement of Kubernetes and cloud native computing. At Pulumi, we are strongly committed to Kubernetes and continue to support the ecosystem with infrastructure management solutions that empower teams to automate, secure, and manage Kubernetes at scale.

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When to Use Cosmos DB

Adam Gordon Bell Adam Gordon Bell
When to Use Cosmos DB

When should you use Cosmos DB on Azure? It’s a hard question to answer.

Azure Cosmos DB tries to do it all - which makes it both powerful and, honestly, kind of confusing. The marketing doesn’t help either. Yeah, it’s a flexible database, but before you jump in, you need to understand how it actually works under the hood, what it’ll cost you, and what trade-offs you’re making by choosing it.

I’m going to break all that down. Here’s a roadmap:

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