Patterns for Drift Detection with Pulumi

David Flanagan David Flanagan
Patterns for Drift Detection with Pulumi

Portions of this blog post are out of date. See the Pulumi Deployments drift detection blog post for an updated overview and examples.

Let’s face it, at some point someone is going to modify your carefully-crafted and automated infrastructure without updating your Pulumi program. These changes cause the desired state of our Pulumi program’s to be inconsistent with the state of the world. These inconsistencies are often referred to as “drift”. In this article, I want to cover a couple of patterns for detecting and reconciling this drift with your Pulumi programs.

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Test-Driven Infrastructure Development with Pulumi and Jest

Christian Nunciato Christian Nunciato
Test-Driven Infrastructure Development with Pulumi and Jest

When I was a kid growing up in Southern California, there was a phone number you could call to find out what time it was. It was a local number, 853-1212 (easy to remember as the arrangement of the numbers on the keypad made a capital T), and I used it all the time, to set my watch, adjust the alarm clock, fix the display on the VCR. I don’t recall the last time I used it, probably sometime in the mid ’90s, but I do remember clearly the sound of the voice at the other end of the line.

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Multicloud with Kubernetes and Pulumi

Guinevere Saenger Guinevere Saenger
Multicloud with Kubernetes and Pulumi

In this article we’ll show you how to use Pulumi Components and the Pulumi Automation API to make golden path decisions which will both support your customers on multiple different clouds, and enable infrastructure teams and frontend service teams to more easily own their respective parts of your codebase.

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Extending Pulumi's Language Support via YAML

David Flanagan David Flanagan
Extending Pulumi's Language Support via YAML

It’s a surprise to nobody that Pulumi’s YAML support has me rather excited, even though I’m unlikely to use YAML itself for Pulumi. So why do I find it exciting? Well, because it’s an open interface to provide support to many other programming languages for Pulumi.

Let’s take a look at using YAML as a bridge for CUE, JSONNET, and Rust.

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Stack READMEs in the Pulumi Service

Stack READMEs in the Pulumi Service

Starting today, users can create Stack READMEs in the Pulumi Service that dynamically update based on Stack Outputs.

Each Pulumi Stack you deploy manages a key set of cloud infrastructure for your organization. The Pulumi Console includes a variety of features for exposing key information about your stack for other users within your organization - configuration, outputs, resources under management, links to cloud providers, and a graph of all resources. However, it’s often useful to allow the author of a Pulumi Stack to describe in their own words the key elements of a stack, so future viewers can quickly understand the components and cloud resources that are managed.

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Pulumi Universal IaC: New Support For Java, YAML and AWS CDK

Luke Hoban Luke Hoban
Pulumi Universal IaC: New Support For Java, YAML and AWS CDK

Some of the code in this post is out of date. See the AWS guides for an updated overview and examples.

Over the last year since the launch of Pulumi 3.0, we’ve seen incredible growth in adoption and usage of the Pulumi open source project and Cloud Engineering platform, with more than a thousand new open source contributors, tens of thousands of new users, and millions of new cloud infrastructure resources being managed by Pulumi. Pulumi’s infrastructure as code tools are enabling teams to scale up their cloud infrastructure with robust software engineering tools and practices to get the most value out of their cloud platform investments.

Today, we’re excited to announce a wave of innovation across the Pulumi project with a collection of significant new feature launches. These new features bring together Pulumi’s Universal Infrastructure as Code offering, supporting the widest range of builders, clouds, programming languages, and cloud architectures.

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Infrastructure as Code with Java and Pulumi

Mikhail Shilkov Mikhail Shilkov
Infrastructure as Code with Java and Pulumi

Infrastructure has become a core part of application development as modern cloud capabilities such as microservices, containers, serverless, and data stores define your application’s architecture. The term “infrastructure” covers all of the cloud resources your application needs to run. Modern architectures require thinking deeply about infrastructure while building your application, instead of treating it as an afterthought. Pulumi’s approach helps developers, infrastructure engineers, and platform teams work together to leverage everything the modern cloud has to offer.

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Pulumi YAML: A Simple Declarative Interface for Pulumi

Luke Hoban Luke Hoban
Pulumi YAML: A Simple Declarative Interface for Pulumi

Since we first launched Pulumi 4 years ago, a core point of differentiation between Pulumi and other Infrastructure as Code offerings has been the ability to use popular general purpose programming languages - and their rich software engineering ecosystems - in order to scale up the complexity and richness of cloud infrastructure workloads. This approach has enabled cloud builders to adopt and embrace modern Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi using a wide variety of languages, including TypeScript, Python, Go, C# and Java.

Our goal though has always been to offer the broadest range of programming language options to empower every cloud builder so that they could benefit from the best of Pulumi’s Infrastructure as Code platform.

Today, we are excited to launch Pulumi YAML, a simple YAML-based interface to the entirety of the Pulumi Infrastructure as Code platform.

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Crosswalk for AWS in all Pulumi Languages

Paul Stack Paul Stack
Crosswalk for AWS in all Pulumi Languages

Portions of this blog post are out of date. See the AWS guides for an updated overview and examples.

Crosswalk for AWS is a collection of libraries that make it easy to work with AWS using Pulumi Infrastructure as Code. The Crosswalk for AWS libraries are some of the most widely used higher-level components in the Pulumi ecosystem, with hundreds of organizations building their infrastructure on the simple abstractions over key AWS services like ECS, API Gateway, VPC, Load Balancing, CloudTrail, EC2, ECR, and more.

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