Paul Stack

Event-driven, serverless functions have become a defining feature of many modern cloud architectures. With recent capabilities such as AWS Lambda URLs and AWS Lambda Containers, AWS has made it clear that Lambda Functions are a platform that teams can use to deliver increasingly sophisticated services without worrying about managing underlying compute resources. Today, AWS announced another advancement for their Lambda Functions platform: Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). At its core, ABAC support brings more granular permissions that are automatically applied based on IAM role tags, Lambda tags, or both.

Read more →

Crosswalk for AWS is a collection of libraries that make it easy to work with AWS using Pulumi Infrastructure as Code. The Crosswalk for AWS libraries are some of the most widely used higher-level components in the Pulumi ecosystem, with hundreds of organizations building their infrastructure on the simple abstractions over key AWS services like ECS, API Gateway, VPC, Load Balancing, CloudTrail, EC2, ECR, and more.

Read more →

We are excited to announce v5.0.0 of the Pulumi AWS Classic provider. The AWS Classic provider is one of the most heavily used providers across the Pulumi ecosystem, and offers access to the full surface area of the upstream Terraform AWS Provider from within Pulumi projects in all supported Pulumi languages. The v5.0.0 release brings a substantial set of fixes and improvements to the provider, including a number of breaking changes as part of the major version release.

Read more →

In late 2018, AWS launched their first EC2 instances powered by ARM-based AWS Graviton Processors. These instances had been optimized for performance and cost. Since that initial launch, Amazon has continued to innovate in the Graviton space. In June 2021, they launched the Graviton Challenge for users to move their applications to AWS Graviton2. AWS Graviton2 processor instance types are up to 20% lower cost than x86 based instance types and see up to 40% better price performance.

Read more →

Guest Article: Simen A. W. Olsen is a Software Architect and Manager at Bjerk, a software development agency based in Oslo, Norway. He joins Paul Stack to talk about the new GitHub Action powered by the Pulumi Automation API.

In this article, we’ll take a look at how our GitHub Action has been re-architected to be built on top of our Automation API.

Read more →

GitHub Actions help automate tasks within your software development life cycle. At Pulumi, we use GitHub Actions internally as part of every build/release cycle, and we run these tasks many, many times per day. This helps us to automate our CI/CD process and eliminate manual steps. Pulumi and many of our customers also deliver infrastructure resources as part of a CI/CD process: delivering infrastructure and applications in a single, integrated pipeline.

Read more →

At re:Invent, the AWS team unveiled the new Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (Amazon ECR Public), creating a new option for users in publishing and pulling public container images. Pulumi fully supports Amazon ECR Public in two ways:

1. Official Pulumi container images are available today on Amazon ECR Public.
2. Pulumi is the easiest way to package and publish your container images, and we’ll support publishing your container images to Amazon ECR Public very soon.

Read more →

Most infrastructure projects require working with existing cloud resources, either by building on top of existing resources or adopting existing resources under management with a new and more robust infrastructure provisioning solution.

In June 2019, Pulumi introduced the ability to import existing infrastructure resources to be under Pulumi management no matter how you’ve provisioned these resources — manually in your cloud provider’s console or CLI, using an infrastructure as code tool like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Today, we are happy to announce a richer resource import experience.

As of v2.12.0, Pulumi has introduced a pulumi import command. This command will import the cloud resource into the Pulumi state and generate the code for the user’s Pulumi program in the appropriate language.

Read more →

Today we are announcing a minor but significant improvement to the Pulumi preview experience.

Read more →

Customers and users have asked for the ability to change the secrets manager associated with their stacks. This would allow a user to rotate their secrets providers when people leave their organization or even to be able to migrate to another secret manager of their choice. The v2.8.0 release of Pulumi adds support for this specific feature. Let’s have a look at how to change a secrets provider for an existing stack:

Read more →