Joe Duffy

Co-Founder and CEO

ECS vs Fargate vs EKS: The Lowdown on Containers in AWS

Thursday, Jun 20, 2019

Some of the code in this post is out of date. See the AWS guides for an updated overview and examples.

Amazon offers multiple solutions for running containers in AWS, through its managed Elastic Container Service (ECS). This includes three major approaches: ECS managed automatically with Fargate, ECS backed by EC2 instances, and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), delivering the full power of Kubernetes. It's not always easy to choose between these, so in this article we provide some basic guidance on the tradeoffs you'll encounter when choosing.

Happy Birthday to Pulumi open source!

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2019

One year ago today – on June 18, 2018 – we open sourced Pulumi, a new approach to multi-cloud infrastructure as code using your favorite languages. And what a year it has been!

Get Started with Docker on AWS Fargate using Pulumi

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2019

Some of the code in this post is out of date. See the AWS guides for an updated overview and examples.

Update: Check out the Learning Machine Case Study where provisioning went from 3 weeks to 1 hour with Pulumi and AWS.
“The impact of serverless capabilities was also transformative for the Learning Machine business. Pulumi enabled a rapid shift to Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda — the net effect of which was a 67% reduction in AWS charges. This enabled the team to spend less time focused on maintaining existing infrastructure and more time deploying new applications on AWS and adding new customers.
Pulumi is the foundational technology that allowed us to transform our organization,” said Hughes. The entire DevOps process was streamlined and in addition to realizing better productivity and higher quality, the team has new insight into their SaaS offering that they never thought possible.”

Announcing Per User Pricing and Unlimited Stacks for Teams

Friday, Apr 19, 2019

This blog post is outdated and no longer accurate. We have updated our pricing structure in response to user feedback. Learn all about it in our new blog post: Announcing New Usage-Based Pricing For Your Whole Team. Or visit our Pricing Page for more details about pricing.

Since launching last year, thousands of users and hundreds of companies, from startups to Fortune 500 Enterprises, have chosen Pulumi for cloud applications and infrastructure delivery across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. Today we are announcing important changes to better align our product and pricing with how we’ve heard you want to use Pulumi in production. We’re optimistic that these changes will help companies of all sizes choose Pulumi, enabling their teams to deliver cloud applications and infrastructure faster and more reliably.

Testing Your Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi

Wednesday, Apr 17, 2019

Some parts of this blog post are out-of-date. Please refer to our Testing Guide for the updated overview and tutorials.

Using Pulumi and general purpose languages for infrastructure as code comes with many benefits: leveraging existing skills and knowledge, eliminating boilerplate through abstraction, and using the same ecosystem of tools like IDEs and linters that your team already knows and loves. In general, these are all attributes of software engineering, which not only make us more productive, but also improve the quality of our code. It’s only natural, therefore, that using general purpose languages unlocks another important software engineering practice: testing.

In this article, we will see the many ways in which Pulumi lets us test our infrastructure as code.

Easy Serverless Apps and Infrastructure

Monday, Mar 11, 2019

With Pulumi, you can create, deploy, and manage any cloud resource using your favorite language. This includes application and infrastructure related resources, often in the same program.

One area this gets really fun is serverless computing. Because we’re using general purpose languages, we can create resources, and then wire up event handlers, just like normal event-driven programming. This is the way serverless architecture should be!

In this article, we’ll see how. There’s a broad range of options depending on what you want to do, and how your team likes to operate. We’ll be using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and TypeScript, but other clouds and languages are available.

2018 Year at a Glance

Monday, Dec 31, 2018

As we close out 2018, and enter into a New Year, I was reflecting on our progress here at Pulumi this past year and wanted to share some thoughts. It’s been an incredible year and we are hugely thankful to our passionate community, customers, and partners.

Building a future of cloud engineering

Monday, Oct 22, 2018

We founded Pulumi because of a deeply held belief that the cloud promises to change all aspects of software development and that there remains an incredible opportunity to reimagine the entire experience, from idea to creation to delivery to management, with one person in mind: you, the engineer.

Continuous Delivery to Any Cloud using GitHub Actions

Wednesday, Oct 17, 2018

Today we announced our partnership with GitHub on the new GitHub Actions feature. We are super excited about this bold and innovative technology, especially as it relates to Pulumi, and CI/CD more broadly. We truly believe that Pulumi plus GitHub Actions delivers the easiest, most capable, and friction-free way to achieve continuous delivery of cloud applications and infrastructure, no matter your cloud – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, or even on-premises. In this post, we’ll dig deeper to see why, and how to get up and running. It’s refreshingly easy!

Program Kubernetes with 11 Pulumi Pearls

Wednesday, Sep 12, 2018

In this post, we’ll take a look at 11 “pearls” – bite-sized code snippets – that demonstrate using Pulumi to build and deploy Kubernetes applications using cloud native infrastructure as code. These pearls are organized into three categories, each demonstrating a unique scenario:

Config as Code: Use your favorite language for authoring applications and configuration, eliminating toil and YAML.
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure: Mix cloud services alongside Kubernetes resources and manage them using one set of tools and workflows.
Software Delivery as Code: Perform sophisticated continuous delivery of your Kubernetes deployments – including canaries, staged rollouts, leveraging cloud native projects like Envoy and Prometheus – authored in code using familiar languages.