From CDK to Pulumi: The Evolution of SST

Sara Huddleston Sara Huddleston
From CDK to Pulumi: The Evolution of SST

As cloud computing continues to evolve, so do the tools and frameworks that developers rely on to manage their infrastructure. For the team building Serverless Stack (SST), a framework built to empower application developers, the journey began with AWS’s CDK. While CDK offered a way to define infrastructure using familiar programming languages, it soon became clear that more was needed to meet developers’ growing needs.

Explore SST’s journey from its origins with CDK to its transition to Pulumi, a modern IaC platform that addresses many of the limitations faced by application developers.

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Pulumi Google Cloud Provider Version 8.0.0

Guinevere Saenger Guinevere Saenger
Pulumi Google Cloud Provider Version 8.0.0

The latest major release of the Pulumi Google Cloud Provider is available now! Our 8.0 release contains the latest upstream changes to keep you up-to-date along with the latest features and improvements from Pulumi.

The Pulumi Google Cloud provider can be used to provision any of the Google Cloud resources available in the upstream provider. The provider is open source and available on GitHub so you can always follow along with current issues and developments, or even open your first pull request.

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Pulumi - Automate, Secure, and Manage Everything You Run in the Cloud

Joe Duffy Joe Duffy
Pulumi - Automate, Secure, and Manage Everything You Run in the Cloud

At our fourth annual PulumiUP conference, we unveiled a new vision for Pulumi, going beyond infrastructure as code to a comprehensive product suite. Pulumi’s platform now consists of three core products: Pulumi IaC is open source infrastructure as code in any programming language; Pulumi ESC is centralized secrets management that scales; and Pulumi Insights delivers instant visibility, intelligence, and control over all of your infrastructure. Each product can be adopted independently but is better together. In this post, we will share more about how Pulumi is your trusted partner to automate, secure, and manage everything you run in the cloud.

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Announcing the General Availability of Pulumi ESC - Welcome to a New Era of Secrets Management

Arun Loganathan Arun Loganathan Luke Hoban Luke Hoban
Announcing the General Availability of Pulumi ESC - Welcome to a New Era of Secrets Management

At Pulumi, we’ve been at the forefront of revolutionizing infrastructure management and DevOps processes. We’ve built the industry’s most comprehensive secrets management solution for IaC, securing production cloud credentials and secrets for countless organizations. Now, we’re taking that expertise and applying it to the broader challenges of managing secrets at scale with an open ecosystem approach.

Pulumi Environments, Secrets, and Configuration (Pulumi ESC), launched in preview in October 2023, is now generally available.

This next-generation secrets management and orchestration service is built with a robust software engineering approach, designed to bring security and simplicity to even the most complex secrets management needs.

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Introducing Pulumi Insights 2.0

Craig Symonds Craig Symonds
Introducing Pulumi Insights 2.0

Pulumi Insights 2.0 brings the power of Insights to all of your cloud infrastructure, not just the infrastructure managed by Pulumi IaC. Insights 2.0 also brings an exciting new suite of tools that make it easy to discover your entire infrastructure, assess security and efficiency of it, and bring it under management of IaC for best-in-class infrastructure management practices.

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Announcing the Pulumi Visual Studio Code Extension

Announcing the Pulumi Visual Studio Code Extension

At the heart of Pulumi’s approach to cloud infrastructure and secrets management is a belief in empowering engineers to use the best software engineering tools to manage complexity at scale and to be maximally productive building cloud infrastructure and applications for their businesses.

Today, we’re excited to announce a next big step in delivering great software engineering tools for Pulumi users, with the launch of a new Pulumi Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extension. The Pulumi VS Code Extension brings Pulumi key features for Pulumi IaC and Pulumi ESC directly into the IDE environment that many Pulumi users work in every day. Pulumi IaC users can now debug their applications and get Pulumi YAML language support directly in VS Code. And Pulumi ESC users can now create and manage environments, secrets and configuration directly within the IDE with rich IDE features.

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Pushing Pulumi ESC Secrets into External Platforms

Komal Ali Komal Ali
Pushing Pulumi ESC Secrets into External Platforms

Managing secrets across multi-cloud infrastructures has long been a challenge for developers and operations teams. This article explores Pulumi IaC-based strategy to centrally define secrets and configuration in Pulumi ESC and automatically sync these values across the external platforms where they will be utilized, effectively reducing secret sprawl and manual overhead.

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Announcing the New Pulumi Partner Program

Isaac Harris Isaac Harris Tejitha Raju Tejitha Raju
Announcing the New Pulumi Partner Program

We are excited to announce the launch of the Pulumi Partner Program, a strategic initiative designed to empower our partners and their customers to accelerate cloud projects and achieve faster time-to-market. This program is crafted for cloud and SaaS companies who are building, integrating, and going to market with Pulumi.

Hear from dozens of partners and customers who automate, secure and manage everything in the cloud at PulumiUP on Wednesday, September 18. Register here.

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Introducing Webhooks for Pulumi ESC

Iaroslav Titov Iaroslav Titov Arun Loganathan Arun Loganathan
Introducing Webhooks for Pulumi ESC

Managing secrets and configurations across multiple environments and teams can be a complex juggling act for development teams. Pulumi ESC, our developer-friendly secrets management product, simplifies this process and accelerates your development cycle. Today, we’re excited to make this process even easier with the launch of Webhooks for Pulumi ESC, a powerful new feature that allows you to send a custom trigger to any URL endpoint, enabling you to automate workflows and keep your infrastructure and applications up to date. Pulumi ESC Webhooks also integrates seamlessly with popular communication platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams.

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Introducing Pulumi ESC Projects and Environment Tags

Derek Schaller Derek Schaller Arun Loganathan Arun Loganathan
Introducing Pulumi ESC Projects and Environment Tags

We’re thrilled to unveil two new features that will empower you to organize your collection of Pulumi ESC Environments: Projects and Environment Tags. Projects offer a structured way to group related environments and Environment Tags allow you to add contextual information to each environment. Together, they offer a powerful way for you to manage, navigate, and collaborate on your secrets and configurations.

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