Pulumi has many resource providers that allow you to interact with your favorite cloud or resource. There are times when a provider may not deliver on the specific task that you want to accomplish. Dynamic Providers can be a powerful tool to help accomplish your infrastructure tasks.
The AWS Cloud ecosystem is large and vibrant, so vast and vibrant that at times, it can be challenging to know where best to start! In the case of containers, Abby Fuller tweeted a descriptive summary about using container services in AWS Cloud.
As we celebrate another incredible year in the books here at Pulumi, I wanted to share some reflections about our most exciting milestones over the past twelve months. The best part has been connecting with more customers worldwide, as we saw more than a 15x growth in our customer base, surely a sign of big things to come in 2020. We couldn’t have done it without our amazing community; thank you deeply for your continued support and passion around Pulumi’s bold mission to empower every engineer to program the cloud — you make it all worthwhile.
AWS recently announced the launch of Provisioned Concurrency, a new feature of AWS Lambda that intends to solve the problem of cold starts. In this article, we take another look at the problem of latency-critical serverless applications, and how the new feature impacts the status-quo.
We recently announced a new policy as code solution, CrossGuard that validates policies at deployment time. Policies are expressed as code and are used to prevent the creation of out-of-compliance resources. This allows an organization to prevent entire classes of security and reliability defects to ensure infrastructure is following best practices. Because policies are written using full-blown programming languages, it’s possible to do interesting things such as combining IAM Access Analyzer and Pulumi CrossGuard. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the different types of policies that can be written.
Last month, we announced .NET support for Pulumi, including support for AWS, Azure, GCP, and many other clouds. One of the biggest questions we heard was about Kubernetes — “can I use Pulumi to manage Kubernetes infrastructure in C#, F#, and VB.NET as I can already in TypeScript and Python today?” With last week’s release of Pulumi.Kubernetes on NuGet, you can now also deploy Kubernetes infrastructure using your favorite .NET languages.
At AWS re:Invent this week, Amazon highlighted two new features that simplify scaling your Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters: Managed Node Groups and Fargate. We’re happy to announce that we’ve integrated support for both, making our existing EKS support even easier to use than before. The result is a great spectrum of options for managing your cluster’s compute — offering productivity, flexibility, and control, based on your needs.
Yesterday AWS announced an exciting new feature — the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer — a service powered by automated reasoning that detects potentially-insecure access to your AWS resources, including S3 Buckets, SQS Queues, Lambdas, and more. At the same time, Pulumi announced a new policy as code solution, CrossGuard, that validates policies at deployment time. The question is: Can IAM Access Analyzer and Pulumi CrossGuard be combined to get the best of both solutions?
A big part of our vision with Pulumi is to bring application developers and infrastructure teams closer together in the cloud. That includes both providing infrastructure teams with better software engineering tools, as well as providing developers with easier access to cloud infrastructure. We are often inspired by looking at great software engineering experiences in other development stacks and applying them to the cloud infrastructure space. Whether it be general-purpose languages and rich IDEs, testing and package management, or components and rich APIs, at Pulumi, we’ve repeatedly applied successful development tools and practices to the challenges of building and scaling modern cloud infrastructure.
Today we’ve published Pulumi’s 2.0 roadmap. 2.0 is the next major phase in Pulumi’s journey, and will include better productivity through languages, libraries, and tools, in addition to advanced features for teams in production. And, though we are excited to share our own thoughts, more than anything else, we’d love to hear your feedback to help make sure it’s right. Since releasing Pulumi 1.0 in September, we have heard loud and clear that you appreciate the commitment to compatibility, as well as the completeness and stability of the platform, and we have been hard at work making sure we honor those promises.
