Aaron Kao

The cloud promised to revolutionize your business.

Faster innovation. Lower costs. Unlimited scalability.

But for many companies, that promise remains frustratingly out of reach. Instead of accelerating product development, infrastructure has become a bottleneck. You and your team (DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering teams) are bogged down by:

• Clunky tools and manual processes
• Provisioning a simple test environment takes days
• Rolling out updates across regions takes weeks
• The combinations of modern cloud architectures seems infinite

You know there has to be a better way. A way to truly harness the power of the cloud and turn it into your competitive advantage.

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Today, we’re excited to announce that the Pulumi open source project has crossed the incredible milestone of 20,000 stars on GitHub. 🎉 This is a huge achievement, and it wouldn’t have been possible without y’all - our incredible global community of developers.

Since its inception, Pulumi’s vision has been rooted in enabling teams to build and manage modern cloud infrastructure using familiar languages and tools. Over the years, your feedback, contributions, and passion have been invaluable in shaping Pulumi into what it is today. Seeing so many developers embrace our modern approach to cloud infrastructure management is really exciting. We are deeply grateful for the trust y’all have placed in us, and we will continue to push the boundaries in how teams manage cloud infrastructure.

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If you’ve been following along with our IaC Recommended Practices series, then you’re already familiar with Zephyr Archaeotech Emporium, the fictional company at the center of the series. Today, you’ll get an inside look at how Zephyr starts using Pulumi for locally testing the application code for their online store and accelerating the inner dev loop for their development team.

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This is the first in a series of blog posts that explores how a fictional company—Zephyr Archaeotech Emporium—uses Pulumi to manage their online retail store. This post explores a couple common questions that users ask when working with Pulumi; specifically, where should I store my Pulumi code? And how do I support multiple environments with Pulumi? This post will provide some guidance and recommended practices around these topics, using Zephyr and their online store as the use case.

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