Kubernetes resources often have more than one controller making changes to them. These controllers can include kubectl, the Kubernetes control plane, custom operators, or infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Pulumi. With the v3.20.1 release of the Kubernetes provider, you have some powerful new options for managing shared resources in Kubernetes. In this post, we show you how Pulumi can help you work with shared resources safely and effectively.

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In this blog post, we will talk about how Pulumi is now using .NET 6, the latest Long-Term Support version of .NET, as our default across the ecosystem. We will discuss the changes applied to templates, program structure and code generation. We also explain how Pulumi C# projects can benefit from the latest features in .NET 6 and how it simplifies your programs overall. Let’s dive in, shall we?

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Event-driven, serverless functions have become a defining feature of many modern cloud architectures. With recent capabilities such as AWS Lambda URLs and AWS Lambda Containers, AWS has made it clear that Lambda Functions are a platform that teams can use to deliver increasingly sophisticated services without worrying about managing underlying compute resources.

Today, AWS announced another advancement for their Lambda Functions platform: Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). At its core, ABAC support brings more granular permissions that are automatically applied based on IAM role tags, Lambda tags, or both. This update builds on well-established Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) principles while making it possible to implement granular controls without permissions updates for every new user and resource.

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When I started using Pulumi for the first time, I used C# as my language of choice for defining infrastructure. I start by creating resources and providing their parameters through argument objects. The IDE helps me out with auto-completions and type errors as I go but the compiler didn’t always detect some of the errors I eventually came across.

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The AWS Static Website component makes it easy to deploy an AWS S3 static website and, optionally, add a CloudFront content distribution network (CDN). While you can use any of the programming languages Pulumi supports (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java, and YAML), the component is particularly useful if you use YAML or JSON. With the AWS Static Website component, you’ll have a complete, functioning site in a few minutes. Without it, you can spend hours or even days to get the same result.

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Our first release notes since the frenzy of releases for PulumiUP! The latest Pulumi updates also include our providers updates, compression of filestate backends, adding –stack to pulumi about, adding local policy packs to Automation API and much more! Learn about what’s new.

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Some of the largest and most complex deployments that teams manage are hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Kubernetes is a common component in these deployments because it enables platform teams to provide a common set of services across cloud and on-premises infrastructure and simplifies the process of migrating and scaling workloads as demand fluctuates. Pulumi simplifies these deployment scenarios but teams often need to manage different flavors of Kubernetes for on-premises deployments versus cloud deployments.

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At PulumiUP 2022, Tomas Jansson, software architect at Elkjøp Nordic, gave a presentation on how to enable developers to self-service infrastructure by using Pulumi’s Automation API.

Elkjøp Nordic is the leading consumer electronics retailer in the Nordics. The company sells consumer electronics, mobile phones, computers, white goods, domestic appliances, and services linked to these products both directly to consumers and to businesses. It is an omnichannel retailer and serves customers both online and through more than 400 stores. Elkjøp has retail outlets in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and franchise operations in Greenland and Faroe Islands.

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One thing I love about Pulumi is how easy it is to configure a stack. As a builder mainly of web applications, I’m always thinking about how I’ll configure my apps from one environment to the next, and being able to use Pulumi’s built-in support for configuration and secrets to manage the API keys and database credentials for my dev, staging, and production stacks individually is incredibly convenient.

For larger teams and organizations, though, where multiple applications rely on a set of common configuration settings — dozens of apps, say, depending on the same API service or database — having to keep all of those config settings in sync across all of those individually can become a bit of a pain. When this happens, you may find yourself looking for ways to extract those settings into some sort of a service to allow you to manage them easily in one place, and in a way that allows any application to inherit them automatically.

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Cloudflare Workers provides a serverless execution environment that allows you to create entirely new applications or augment existing ones without configuring or maintaining infrastructure. They support NodeJS and WebAssembly (WASM), as well as any language that can compile to WASM.

Delivered from over 250 locations worldwide, Cloudflare could be the best way to bring down that latency that’s plaguing your customers. Claiming 0ms for cold starts, automatic scaling, 100k free requests per day, and edge storage built-in: Cloudflare offers a pretty compelling edge compute platform for serverless workloads.

Let’s see how we can deploy a low-latency serverless URL shortener to Cloudflare Workers with Pulumi.

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