Equinix recently released their self-maintained, fully-supported Pulumi provider, available in the Pulumi Registry. In this post, you’ll get an overview of the Equinix resources the provider can manage and we’ll show you how to deploy a Kubernetes cluster and associated workloads on Equinix Metal.
In this blog series, you will learn how to create a hub-and-spoke network architecture in AWS with centralized egress and traffic inspection. In this second installment, we’ll show you how to create spoke VPCs to run your workloads, verify centralized egress is working, and then add centralized traffic inspection using Pulumi, the infrastructure as code tool that enables you to manage infrastructure with real programming languages!
Since its introduction in 2014, AWS Lambda has rapidly expanded its capabilities from simple “functions in the cloud” at launch to a comprehensive serverless platform with support for containerized functions and public per-function URL endpoints. As serverless applications have increased in sophistication, developers have used functions-as-a-service as a first-class tool in their microservices strategy. As organizations increasingly look to break up their monolithic applications into services, adoption of AWS Lambda has not been a viable option for applications that return payloads larger than the 6 MiB Lambda service limit.
In this blog series you will learn how to create a hub-and-spoke network architecture in AWS with centralized egress and traffic inspection. In this first installment, we’ll talk about the benefits of this architecture and begin to lay out some of its parts in Python with Pulumi, the infrastructure as code tool that enables you to manage infrastructure with real programming languages!
Point and click in the console is great when you’re first starting out learning a new cloud or managed service, but it quickly becomes a hindrance when cloud infrastructure is widely adopted by an organization. The point at which the term “widely adopted” becomes applicable to your situation differs, but at some point in their careers, many infrastructure and platform engineers are faced with situations where a large number of critical infrastructure resources were created through “click ops” with no ability to track changes, reproduce environments consistently, and so on. When this happens (and it will probably happen to many of you), it’s time to import those resources into infrastructure as code.
Fortunately, Pulumi has one of the smoothest and most powerful import processes of any IaC tool. In this post, we’re going to show you how to automate the bulk importation of Google Cloud resources into Pulumi! This approach will also work on resources that were created by another IaC tool.
Event streaming is used across diverse industries that demand real-time data processing. Apache Kafka is the most popular open-source streaming platform. Confluent Cloud lets you run Kafka on the cloud provider of your choice.
In this blog post, you’ll use the Confluent Cloud Pulumi provider and Pulumi to create a Kafka cluster, topic, and customer account.
A few weeks ago, I was speaking with a consultant at one of the big firms who asked me how he could introduce Pulumi into a client’s organization when that client had created many infrastructure resources manually through the AWS console and was running production workloads on those resources. Introducing modern cloud infrastructure tooling and automation is relatively simple (or at least more straightforward) when organizations decide to adopt IaC from the start of their cloud journey, but what about organizations who have gone far enough down the route of manually created cloud infrastructure to see the perils of that approach?
As AWS Lambda has matured as a serverless platform, there are two key ways the service has evolved: New capabilities that extend the platform to support new use cases like Lambda Container support, Lambda URLs and attribute-based access control support. 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.
Self-service infrastructure is the holy grail of DevOps. When platform engineering teams can empower application teams to provision their own infrastructure without needing to understand the details of configuring networking, storage, and compute resources, IT organizations can drastically increase their ability to deliver on organizational goals. The first step in this process is to codify infrastructure best practices using platforms like Pulumi and the next step is to make these best practices available in a workflow that fits into the application team’s software development tools and process.
