Announcing dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments

Komal Ali Komal Ali Iaroslav Titov Iaroslav Titov
Announcing dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments

We’re excited to announce dependency caching for Pulumi Deployments! This new feature is designed to significantly speed up deployment times by reducing dependency installation time by up to 80%, ensuring faster and more efficient workflows for every Pulumi user.

When using Pulumi Deployments, installing dependencies can be a time-consuming part of a deployment. With dependency caching, Pulumi can reuse previously installed dependencies, allowing your deployments to skip redundant installation steps and focus on the task at hand. This optimization is especially helpful for frequent deployments, reducing both time and compute resources.

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Pulumi's Latest Kubernetes Updates from KubeCon North America

Gavin Johnson Gavin Johnson
Pulumi's Latest Kubernetes Updates from KubeCon North America

Pulumi is excited to be at KubeCon North America this week, the premier event for all things Kubernetes and cloud-native. KubeCon is the gathering place for developers, enterprises, and cloud native experts to meet and further the education and advancement of Kubernetes and cloud native computing. At Pulumi, we are strongly committed to Kubernetes and continue to support the ecosystem with infrastructure management solutions that empower teams to automate, secure, and manage Kubernetes at scale.

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When to Use Cosmos DB

Adam Gordon Bell Adam Gordon Bell
When to Use Cosmos DB

When should you use Cosmos DB on Azure? It’s a hard question to answer.

Azure Cosmos DB tries to do it all - which makes it both powerful and, honestly, kind of confusing. The marketing doesn’t help either. Yeah, it’s a flexible database, but before you jump in, you need to understand how it actually works under the hood, what it’ll cost you, and what trade-offs you’re making by choosing it.

I’m going to break all that down. Here’s a roadmap:

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How Secrets Sprawl is Slowing You Down—And What to Do About It.

Engin Diri Engin Diri
How Secrets Sprawl is Slowing You Down—And What to Do About It.

Only a few things are certain in the lives of developers and DevOps engineers: taxes, yearly performance reviews, and secret sprawl. While the first two are inevitable, the last one is something that can be managed.

As we keep adding new cloud resources and releasing new applications, the number of secrets we need to manage keeps growing: passwords, API keys, certificates, and more. And as if this isn’t enough, we need to manage secrets across different systems and environments with different teams that need to access them; we end up with duplicates.

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The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

Sara Huddleston Sara Huddleston Josh Kodroff Josh Kodroff
The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting platform engineering to optimize their software delivery and operations. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have platform engineering teams to provide reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery. Additionally, by 2027, 80% of large enterprises will leverage platform engineering to scale DevOps initiatives in hybrid cloud environments effectively.

This shift is driven by the rise of cloud adoption, where many enterprises face the challenge of uncoordinated application teams deploying workloads in different ways across various cloud platforms. This siloed approach often results in a lack of standardization, security risks, and operational inefficiencies.

Platform engineering offers a strategic solution to these issues. This guide provides the essential steps to successfully implement platform engineering, from laying the foundation to scaling internal developer platforms (IDPs) for future growth.

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Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0

Eron Wright Eron Wright
Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0

A few years ago we released the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator, a cloud-native way to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure using Pulumi from within your Kubernetes environment. We’ve heard your feedback about limitations related to scalability and isolation. Today, we’re excited to announce version v2.0 (beta 2) of the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator. We’ve put a new, horizontally scalable architecture in place along with a variety of new security features and customization options. Let’s dig in!

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