Daniel Bradley

Daniel Bradley

Software Engineer

Pulumi Azure Classic Provider Version 6.0.0

Pulumi Azure Classic Provider Version 6.0.0

The latest major release of the Azure Classic Pulumi Provider is available now! Our 6.0 release contains the latest upstream changes to keep you up-to-date along with the latest features and improvements from Pulumi.

The Azure Classic provider is derived from the upstream Terraform AzureRM provider and can be used to provision most resources on Azure. The Azure Classic provider can be used to complement the Pulumi Azure Native provider, our recommended provider, which has amazing resource coverage due to being derived directly from the official specifications. The provider is open source and available on GitHub so you can always follow along with current issues and developments, or even open your first pull request.

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AWS Lambda SnapStart with Pulumi

AWS Lambda SnapStart with Pulumi

As AWS Lambda has matured as a serverless platform, there are two key ways the service has evolved:

  1. New capabilities that extend the platform to support new use cases like Lambda Container support, Lambda URLs and attribute-based access control support.
  2. Performance enhancements that enable Lambda functions to be more responsive and cost-effective such as Tiered compilation, and Graviton2 support are just a few examples of the investments AWS made in this space.

With each advancement, the reasons to deploy a full VM or cluster to support your application get fewer and the time to deliver value in the cloud gets shorter.

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Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS 1.0: AWSX, EKS, and AWS API Gateway

Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS 1.0: AWSX, EKS, and AWS API Gateway

Portions of this blog post are out of date. See the AWS guides for an updated overview and examples.

We introduced Crosswalk for AWS three years ago as a library of components on top of the core AWS platform to make it easier to get from zero to production on AWS, easier to adopt AWS best practices by default, and easier to evolve your AWS infrastructure as your application needs mature. Since then, we’ve added many new capabilities, expanded the portfolio of libraries, and made these libraries available to all Pulumi languages. We’ve also seen thousands of Pulumi customers, including more than 25% of all Pulumi AWS users, adopting one or more of the Crosswalk for AWS components to aid in delivering their AWS-based applications and services.

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Node.js Native Binary Compilation Using vercel/pkg

Node.js Native Binary Compilation Using vercel/pkg

In Pulumi’s engineering department, we often build and distribute tools as native binaries to avoid the need for additional dependencies on user machines. Most of these tools are written in Go, which has good support for building self-contained binaries that target modern operating systems.

While other Pulumi-supported languages like Node.js, Python, and .NET require additional runtime dependencies, it’s possible to bundle dependencies with the program. In this article, we’ll show you how to do that for a Node.js program.

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Exploring how to solve circular dependencies

Exploring how to solve circular dependencies

As part of our hackathon near the end of last year, we decided to explore solutions to a common problem when people are using Pulumi for their systems. A question that’s been asked in a few different forms is how to resolve circular dependencies between resources in a Pulumi program.

A simple example of this idea is a modern web application with a static front-end and an API, where the front-end needs to know the URL of the API to be able to call it and the API needs to know the source domain of the front-end to allow it access via CORS. As these two resources rely on one another to be created, they are circular dependencies.

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