This is the first of a three-part series originally published on The New Stack.

Infrastructure as Code is a technology for automating the infrastructure for your cloud applications. If you’re an engineer, whether that’s developing a backend service or within a central platform team, it’s not just about writing application code. You’ll need to provision, update and perform other tasks associated with its supporting infrastructure, and that’s where Infrastructure as Code can help. Instead of manually pointing-and-clicking in the cloud console, which is unrepeatable and error-prone, or writing ad-hoc scripts, which can be tedious and hard to scale, Infrastructure as Code lets us, as engineers, use familiar techniques by just writing code.

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In a world where cloud computing is the backbone of modern applications, managing environments and secrets is of the utmost importance. Earlier this month we released a new service called Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration), the focus of which is to help alleviate the burden of managing cloud configuration and secrets by providing a centralized way to handle these critical aspects of cloud development. It’s like having a Swiss Army knife in your toolkit, ready to tackle the challenges of cloud infrastructure. This post will highlight the specific challenge of credentials management, and we’ll specifically dive into how using the esc run functionality of Pulumi ESC will make that easier.

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The emergence of DevOps revolutionized software development. Now, with AI powered tools like LangChain, these transformations are being accelerated. Unsurprisingly, our distinguished speaker at the launch of Pulumi’s in-person AI Talks, Patrick Debois, who coined the term “DevOps,” has recently tuned into LLM and GenAI Ops using the Langchain framework.

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Building on our work of converting Terraform projects, we now have support for adopting resources from Terraform state.

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We are thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) of Pulumi Deployments, a fully managed platform designed to simplify and accelerate your journey from code to cloud. Whether you’re an organization just beginning your cloud journey or a platform team supporting thousands of engineers, Pulumi Deployments is your go-to solution for managing infrastructure at scale. With the GA of Pulumi Deployments comes a suite of feature improvements since launch and a pricing model starting November 1st.

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Pulumi’s policy as code engine, CrossGuard, is already very flexible, and can enforce custom or predefined policies across a wide variety of use cases, including security, compliance, cost, and overall best practices. CrossGuard warns or issues errors should a deployment attempt to violate a policy. Last week we announced a new extension to CrossGuard called remediation policies. Remediation policies don’t just check for compliance, they go ahead and actually fix the problems in place. This ensures that every deployment across your entire team conforms, no questions asked, while also not needing to pester end users to remember all of the rules as they write their infrastructure as code, such as tagging resources a specific way. In this post, we will dig deeper into remediation policies and their use cases.

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At Pulumi, we understand that Pulumi Cloud plays an important role in how our customers address their infrastructure management challenges. As a result, we strive for the highest levels of availability and performance in Pulumi Cloud. Unfortunately, on Friday, October 6, 2023, Pulumi Cloud suffered a 24 minute outage during which we failed to process 74.7% of received requests. In this post, we’d like to share our findings on the root cause of this outage, and the steps we are taking to ensure this sort of outage doesn’t happen again.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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