Luke Hoban

Luke Hoban

CTO

The Present and (Near) Future of AI and Infrastructure as Code

The Present and (Near) Future of AI and Infrastructure as Code

AI is impacting almost every industry today, and for good reason - we are seeing fundamentally new experiences being made possible across a wide variety of products, and a set of new AI capabilities that promise even more incredible change in the near future.

Software development is among the earliest and most prominent fields to realize the benefits of AI, evidenced by the rapid adoption of tools like Github Copilot which is now one of the most heavily adopted developer tools of all time. Developers are benefiting from an incredible increase in their productivity with better scale and faster time to market.

We’re seeing the impacts of AI in the cloud Infrastructure development space in two impactful and complimentary directions:

  • 🤖➜☁️: AI is transforming how we author, build and manage cloud infrastructure
  • ☁️➜🤖: Cloud infrastructure tooling is changing how we build and deliver AI-based applications

At Pulumi, we’ve already seen profound impacts from AI in both of these directions.

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From AI Prompt to Cloud Infrastructure in 30 Seconds

From AI Prompt to Cloud Infrastructure in 30 Seconds

Earlier this year we launched Pulumi AI, a purpose-built AI assistant that can create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) from natural language prompts using Pulumi. Since launch, we’ve seen incredible adoption of Pulumi AI, with over 200,000 questions asked so far and growing fast. Pulumi AI is popular with users new to Pulumi and/or new to the Cloud, but also heavily used by many of the most advanced IaC users and organizations to quickly discover solutions to new problems they need to solve. Over the last few months, we’ve driven major improvements to Pulumi AI through the recently launched Pulumi AI Answers pages with thousands of AI generated answers to common questions, improvements to code generation correctness and performance, and expansion of the languages supported by Pulumi AI.

Today, we are taking the next big step, introducing support for deploying cloud infrastructure directly from Pulumi AI. Going from idea to running cloud infrastructure is just a natural language prompt away!

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Pulumi for Platform Teams: New Features for Developer Portals, Policy and Deployments

Pulumi for Platform Teams: New Features for Developer Portals, Policy and Deployments

Over the last two years, we’ve seen a huge surge in adoption of Pulumi by Platform Teams – centralized teams within a business responsible for building out core cloud infrastructure and providing tools to the rest of the organization to maximize the productivity, cost efficacy, compliance and velocity of application and service delivery throughout the organization. These teams use Pulumi to manage their own cloud infrastructure complexity, to offer best practices components to their organizations, to enforce organizational policy, and to drive infrastructure delivery automation.

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Introducing Pulumi ESC: Easy and Secure Environments, Secrets and Configuration

Introducing Pulumi ESC: Easy and Secure Environments, Secrets and Configuration

Today, we’re excited to introduce Pulumi ESC, a new product from Pulumi that manages and tames secrets and configuration complexity across all of your cloud infrastructure and application environments. Pulumi ESC introduces a new category of configuration-as-code product, motivated by our experience working with hundreds of Pulumi IaC customers to address their needs in managing secrets and configuration at scale within their Pulumi infrastructure and across other cloud applications and infrastructure projects.

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Pulumi Insights and AI in the Pulumi CLI

Pulumi Insights and AI in the Pulumi CLI

Earlier this year we introduced Pulumi Insights, a collection of features that bring intelligence to cloud infrastructure using Pulumi. Two key components of that launch were Pulumi AI, a generative AI assistant purpose-built to create cloud infrastructure using natural language, and Pulumi Resource Search, multi-cloud search and analytics across every cloud resource and environment in your organization. Today, we are excited to bring Pulumi Insights into the pulumi CLI with the new pulumi org search and pulumi ai commands.

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Pulumi Kubernetes 4.0: Even More Kubernetes-Native

Pulumi Kubernetes 4.0: Even More Kubernetes-Native

Since the very earliest days of the Pulumi project, Kubernetes has been a core part of the Pulumi platform. The initial Pulumi Kubernetes provider supported the entire API surface area of the Kubernetes platform, derived directly and automatically from the Kubernetes OpenAPI specifications, and available to all of Pulumi’s familiar programming languages. Since then, we have offered day one support for every new Kubernetes version, added support for Helm, YAML, Kustomize and CRDs, added tools for converting to Pulumi (kube2pulumi and crd2pulumi) and delivered the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator. During that same time, Kubernetes usage has continued to expand within the ecosystem and among Pulumi users, with the Kubernetes provider growing from the fourth most used to the second most used provider on the platform.

We are excited to release the next major version of our Kubernetes provider - Pulumi Kubernetes 4.0.

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Pulumi AI: The Fastest Way to Discover, Learn, and Build Infrastructure as Code

Pulumi AI: The Fastest Way to Discover, Learn, and Build Infrastructure as Code

We recently released Pulumi AI, a purpose-built AI Assistant that can create cloud infrastructure using Pulumi. It builds on the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) and GPT to dramatically reduce the time it takes to discover, learn and use new cloud infrastructure APIs.

We’ve seen amazing engagement and stories from Pulumi users about the impact this tool has had for them over the past few weeks. In this post, we’ll dive deeper into this new technology, and share why we and so many other Pulumi users are so excited about Pulumi AI.

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Pulumi Insights: Intelligence for Cloud Infrastructure

Pulumi Insights: Intelligence for Cloud Infrastructure

We’ve seen incredible acceleration of cloud adoption over the past 5 years. Pulumi’s flagship open source IaC solution gives engineers great tools to scale up their cloud infrastructure using the same programming languages and tools they already know and love. As a result, thousands of companies of every size and scale have adopted Pulumi as a lynchpin of their cloud infrastructure strategy.

Today we’re excited to announce Pulumi Insights, the next major productivity enhancement for infrastructure as code. Pulumi Insights provides intelligence, search, and analytics over any infrastructure, in any cloud across your organization, leveraging the latest advances in generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). Whether you have an AWS VPC, a Kubernetes CRD, or a DataDog alarm definition, Pulumi Insights enables you to intelligently find and interact with all of your resources from within the Pulumi Cloud.

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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.

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Announcing: Pulumi Deployments, YAML GA, Arch Templates

Announcing: Pulumi Deployments, YAML GA, Arch Templates

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

Our mission at Pulumi is to enable teams to scale up what they can build in the cloud. Scale up the sophistication and value of their cloud infrastructure investments through software engineering practices. Scale up the automation around delivering cloud infrastructure with software instead of just humans. And scale up the number of developers who can directly benefit from the rich cloud platform capabilities being built by central platform teams in every organization today.

As part of Pulumi Cloud Engineering Days 2022 today we are announcing a set of important new advancements in the Pulumi platform which are all designed to help organizations scale with their infrastructure as code needs.

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