Bicep is a DSL developed by Microsoft to simplify the authoring of ARM templates and deploy resources to Azure. Today I will be sharing with you a new Pulumi converter plugin that I have been working on that converts Bicep code to any of the supported Pulumi languages.
Pulumi loves Go, it’s what powers Pulumi. We’ve kept a close eye on the design and development of support for generics in the Go programming language over the years, a feature that allows developers to write type-safe, concise, and reusable code. We’ve been exploring what it’d look like to improve Pulumi’s Go SDKs with generics and recently published a public RFC detailing our plans. We’ve been making progress on the implementation and are excited to announce preview support for Go generics in our core and AWS Go SDKs. If you’re using Go with Pulumi, we’d love for you to give it a try and share your feedback!
// Given
var a pulumi.IntOutput
var b pulumi.StringOutput
// Before (could panic at runtime if you got something wrong)
o := pulumi.All(a, b).ApplyT(func(vs []interface{}) string { // could panic
a := vs[0].(int) // could panic
b := vs[1].(string) // could panic
return strconv.Itoa(a) + b
}).(pulumi.StringOutput) // could panic
// After (compile-time type-safety)
o := pulumix.Apply2(a, b, func(a int, b string) string {
return strconv.Itoa(a) + b
})
One of our most up-voted feature requests (with 78 thumbs ups) is to support hierarchical config. We’re happy to announce that we’ve now released the first part of plans to support this feature. Pulumi will now allow you to set configuration values in your Pulumi.yaml file, using the given value as a default for all stacks in the project. While we expect even this first level of support will be incredibly useful to many people we also want to assure you that we have many more plans in place to make this feature even better.
In this blog post, we will talk about how Pulumi is now using .NET 6, the latest Long-Term Support version of .NET, as our default across the ecosystem. We will discuss the changes applied to templates, program structure and code generation. We also explain how Pulumi C# projects can benefit from the latest features in .NET 6 and how it simplifies your programs overall. Let’s dive in, shall we?
When I started using Pulumi for the first time, I used C# as my language of choice for defining infrastructure. I start by creating resources and providing their parameters through argument objects. The IDE helps me out with auto-completions and type errors as I go but the compiler didn’t always detect some of the errors I eventually came across.