We’ve been hard at work and are having the biggest month ever at Pulumi. That includes two new products, Pulumi ESC and Pulumi for Platform Teams, and news of our Series C. That’s a boatload of fresh infrastructure as code innovation. And October isn’t even over yet!
At Pulumi, we work with organizations that range from a few platform team members to entire departments for managing infrastructure. Many organizations, like Mercedes-Benz, have built internal developer platforms on top of Pulumi to enable developers to self-serve infrastructure templates, and partners like AWS Proton and Port have built integrations with Pulumi to enable self-service scenarios. We are thrilled to have announced yesterday the launch of our new suite of tools to build internal developer portals with Pulumi, a result of working directly with our customers to understand their problems and how Pulumi can solve it.
Over the last two years, we’ve seen a huge surge in adoption of Pulumi by Platform Teams – centralized teams within a business responsible for building out core cloud infrastructure and providing tools to the rest of the organization to maximize the productivity, cost efficacy, compliance and velocity of application and service delivery throughout the organization. These teams use Pulumi to manage their own cloud infrastructure complexity, to offer best practices components to their organizations, to enforce organizational policy, and to drive infrastructure delivery automation.
Today, we’re excited to introduce Pulumi ESC, a new product from Pulumi that manages and tames secrets and configuration complexity across all of your cloud infrastructure and application environments. Pulumi ESC introduces a new category of configuration-as-code product, motivated by our experience working with hundreds of Pulumi IaC customers to address their needs in managing secrets and configuration at scale within their Pulumi infrastructure and across other cloud applications and infrastructure projects.
Backstage is an open source framework for building developer portals, created at Spotify and donated to the CNCF. It allows engineers to create their own development portal internally. Backstage makes it easy for teams to create a unified portal for their infrastructure tooling, software templates, services, documentation and plugins for external tools.
Today we announced a $41M Series C fundraise from Madrona Ventures, NEA, Tola Capital, and Strike Capital. These new funds will help us accelerate momentum, keep innovating with the best infrastructure as code technology on the market, and expand into new product areas to solve even more of our customers’ most pressing cloud challenges. We’ve had a year of exciting milestones – surpassing 150,000 end users in our community, 2,000 customers, and 100 employees – and look forward to many more to come. The future is full of cloud, and yet incredibly bright!
We’ve had an exciting quarter at Pulumi, shipping all kinds of improvements from our providers to our Cloud service. To stay up-to-date on all the details and additional improvements between release blogs, be sure to check out the pulumi/pulumi repo changelog for CLI enhancements and the Pulumi Cloud features in the new features blogs for updates on Pulumi Service features. We have a lot to cover, so let’s get started!
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.
This is the second post in a series about performance optimizations we’ve made to the Pulumi CLI and SDKs. In this post, we’ll go deep on a performance improvement we made for Pulumi Python programs. You can read more about Amazing Performance in the first post in the series.
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
})