Sean Gilespie

Sean Gilespie

Pulumi and Docker: Development to Production

Here at Pulumi, we’re big fans of Docker: at this point there is little doubt that Docker has completely revolutionized the way that we think about deploying software. However, even in 2019, it’s quite difficult to get Docker containers to production. docker run is great, and we all love it, but unfortunately it’s quite a big leap from docker run to running your container in a production-ready environment.

We recently wrote a blog post about using AWS Fargate to run your docker containers with our open source packages. In this blog post we’re going to focus on another interesting aspect of Pulumi: being able to re-use your infrastructure code for both development and production!

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Programming the Cloud with Python

Programming the Cloud with Python

Across the industry, the popularity of Python is exploding. Amongst our own customers at Pulumi, who automate their infrastructure using Python, we’ve seen the same. Stack Overflow wrote about the astounding growth of Python:

The term “fastest-growing” can be hard to define precisely, but we make the case that Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language.

David Robinson, Stack Overflow

Since Python is not a new language, what could be driving this incredible adoption curve?

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