In Pulumi’s engineering department, we often build and distribute tools as native binaries to avoid the need for additional dependencies on user machines. Most of these tools are written in Go, which has good support for building self-contained binaries that target modern operating systems.

While other Pulumi-supported languages like Node.js, Python, and .NET require additional runtime dependencies, it’s possible to bundle dependencies with the program. In this article, we’ll show you how to do that for a Node.js program.

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Creating a website on AWS with an S3 bucket is a fairly straightforward task. You just need to create an S3 bucket, configure it to be a website, and add your content, right?

Unfortunately getting your content into a bucket is only a part of the story. To get your website ready to handle traffic, you will want to associate a domain name and likely want to use a CDN, like Cloudfront, to help with performance. The AWS Static Website Package makes it easy for you to associate a domain and stand up a CDN with only a few arguments.

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It has been an action packed July and August here at Pulumi! Below you will find a highlight list of what we have built across the engineering areas, including new resources support in our providers, new Automation API functionality, interactive options for pulumi refresh and much more.

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Under the hood, Pulumi is a desired state engine. This means that you tell Pulumi what you want, Pulumi knows what already exists, and it makes targeted changes to match the state of the world with your desired state. This works great as long as Pulumi understands the state of the world, which it nearly always does. We will discuss how pulumi refresh can be used to bring Pulumi’s state back inline with external state.

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Introducing the Pulumi Challenge, launching today! We think Pulumi is an amazing IaC tool that increases developer velocity and handles the scale of the cloud with ease. Try it out for yourself by taking a Pulumi Challenge! You’ll build something cool, and we’ll send you some super secret swag in return. We promise it’s better than a t-shirt.

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The Pulumi Service is the easiest way to use Pulumi’s open source, universal infrastructure as code SDK at scale and provides a fully managed experience. It handles infrastructure state and secrets, sets up SAML SSO, integrates with CI/CD pipelines, and enforces compliance rules.

It’s been nearly four years since the Pulumi Service launched back in 2018. In these last four years, our customer base has grown significantly and as a result, the Service’s features and capabilities have grown with it.

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In this blog post, we’re going to use some Angular framework components to assemble a static website and then use Pulumi and its AWS Static Website component to deploy it to AWS. The website is for a café called the Pulumi Café. It will contain two pages, one an About page and the other a Menu page, as well as some navigational pieces.

To follow this example, you need to have both Angular and Pulumi installed. (Here’s a link to the Pulumi installation instructions.) You’ll also need an AWS account.

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A few months ago we launched Organization Access Tokens for the Pulumi Service and saw overwhelmingly fast adoption from our customer base. Based on this customer demand, and existing customer feedback, we prioritized improvements in the scoping of access tokens. Today, we are launching Team Access Tokens, which allow Organization and Team Admins to create access tokens scoped to a Pulumi Team. Pulumi Service customers on the Enterprise and Business Critical editions can use Pulumi Teams to set role-based access controls (RBAC) for stacks by enabling Organization administrators to assign a set of stack permissions to a group of users.

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We are excited to announce that starting today Pulumi customers can create a Billing Manager role for their organization on the Pulumi Service. We have heard from our customers that having a Billing Manager would solve internal process challenges and are aiming to solve these pain points with the new Billing Manager role.

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I love data. I mean, I really love data. Data gives you the ability to understand the world around you and, to a certain degree, project what the future could look like. At Pulumi we use data every day to help make smarter product and business decisions.

Though one hurdle we encountered was not only the sheer volume of data we have but also the large disparity of systems storing that data. Like many companies before us, we chose to build a data warehouse, specifically AWS Redshift, to store all of our data.

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