Build your perfect interface for the cloud: Automation API

Alex Mullans Alex Mullans
Build your perfect interface for the cloud: Automation API

Pulumi Automation API exposes the full power of infrastructure as code through a programmatic interface, instead of through CLI commands. With Automation API, you can create software that has the capability to provision and configure infrastructure: create, update, configure, and destroy infrastructure dynamically. You can create new classes of Software-as-a-Service that provision unique infrastructure for every customer. You can build the perfect cloud interface for your organization, combining all of your infrastructure knowledge and best practices into a purpose-built tool, whether it’s a SaaS offering, an internal web app, a purpose-built CLI tool, a CI/CD integration, or something else entirely.

We announced the general availability of Automation API today at PulumiUP and we’re excited to see what you create with it!

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Unify app and infra delivery with Pulumi's CI/CD Assistant

Alex Mullans Alex Mullans
Unify app and infra delivery with Pulumi's CI/CD Assistant

Pulumi’s CI/CD Assistant helps you bring your infrastructure under version control and create a continuous integration and delivery pipeline that deploys changes to your cloud applications and infrastructure whenever you make a change in source control. Using CI/CD secures your production delivery while ensuring that every deployment is expressed in a committed Pulumi program and quickly reflected in your deployed infrastructure. With the CI/CD Assistant, it’s easier than ever before to set up version control and a CI/CD pipeline for your favorite CI/CD system, even if you’re new to CI/CD workflows.

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Easily bring your team to Pulumi with SAML SSO and SCIM

Alex Mullans Alex Mullans
Easily bring your team to Pulumi with SAML SSO and SCIM

Pulumi’s Cloud Engineering Platform helps teams of all sizes deliver and manage cloud apps and infrastructure. In the Pulumi Service, everyone on the team can see the infrastructure the team is responsible for, when it was last deployed, how it’s configured, and more. You can see a full breakdown of the infrastructure and understand how the team brings together individual cloud services to create applications. When you bring your teams together on Pulumi, you get a “single pane of glass” over all the cloud applications and infrastructure managed with Pulumi.

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PulumiUP: the Event for Cloud Engineers

Wendy Smith Wendy Smith
PulumiUP: the Event for Cloud Engineers

My professional background has included nearly ten years of managing field events and user conferences. I never thought I would say this, but I miss traveling. I even missed Vegas and AWS re:Invent this year. I miss connecting with customers and advocates in our communities. I wish we could all be looking forward to getting together in person in Seattle or Austin or insert any city here. As the year continued, it became clear we were not going back to in-person events anytime soon, and everyone in the industry pivoted to virtual programs while video conferencing became an all-day activity.

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Pulumi Interstellar

Zack Chase Zack Chase Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Pulumi Interstellar

Earth is just the beginning. We are putting down the foundations of space so our children can build their future. At Pulumi, we are committed to making life multi-planetary. We are excited to announce Pulumi Interstellar, a collection of resource providers that will help us reach the future of a space-faring and multi-planet species.

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Keeping Your Secrets Secret

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Keeping Your Secrets Secret

Companies that have suffered data breaches are, unfortunately, frequently in the news. A data breach is when information that should be private, such as credit card numbers or even trade secrets, is stolen. These thefts can be because of an actual cyber-attack, but they can also be due to simple carelessness, such as disposing of computer equipment without taking proper precautions.

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Data Science in the Cloud

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Data Science in the Cloud

Data science has advanced because tools like Jupyter Notebook hide complexity by running high level code for the specific problem they are trying to solve. Increasing the level of abstraction lets a data scientist be more productive by reducing the effort to try multiple approaches to near zero, which encourages experimentation and better results.

Data scientists typically work locally, but they often store data for analyses and models in the cloud. There are clear advantages to using cloud resources for these tasks:

  • Data scientists generally don’t want to manage their storage and databases.
  • They need to be able to store large data sets cheaply.
  • They need large capacity swings available on-demand.

SDKs like AWS’ Python library, boto3, can create resources, but they still require domain expertise to manage and properly architect a solution. The Pulumi Automation API improves on raw SDKs by providing high-level abstractions for creating and managing cloud services, letting data scientists concentrate on analyses and models without being well-versed in cloud APIs.

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Empower Your Team with Policy as Code

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Empower Your Team with Policy as Code

Policies set the guardrails for your applications and infrastructure. They define many aspects of how your company manages its applications and infrastructure. Security, safe use of resources, and compliance with external standards are just a few examples of what a policy can define.

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Automate Your Infrastructure with Automation API and C#

Joshua Studt Joshua Studt Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Automate Your Infrastructure with Automation API and C#

Joshua Studt is a Solutions Architect at Financial Independence Group and a Pulumi Community member who contributed the C# package for Automation API. Currently available in public preview, Pulumi’s Automation API enables you to provision your infrastructure programmatically using the Pulumi engine. Today, we are excited to announce C# support for Automation API, enabling .NET developers to automate infrastructure deployments, create complex orchestration workflows, build custom ops tooling, and build cloud frameworks.

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Full Coverage of Azure Resources with Azure-Native

Mikhail Shilkov Mikhail Shilkov
Full Coverage of Azure Resources with Azure-Native

Last September, we announced the beta release of Pulumi Azure NextGen: a new Microsoft Azure provider for Pulumi that combines same-day access to the entire Azure API surface with the excellent Pulumi experience you know and love, including version-less resources, auto-naming, and auto-location.

Today, we’re excited to announce that this new provider is now the default way to manage Azure resources with Pulumi. We’re also excited to announce its final name: the native Azure provider for Pulumi, or “Azure-Native” for short. You can get started with the new provider using our newly-updated getting started guide.

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