Pulumi’s hackathon tradition continued in the last weeks of 2021 with our 2021 December hackathon. For one solid week, we had teams from across the company focus on improvements across the Pulumi ecosystem, and we brought in people from outside the engineering org to get perspectives on different needs. While there were some projects that were focused on internal work, there were still quite a few open-source projects that we can talk about publicly. We’ll get more details from some of those teams over a few more posts. In this post, however, we’re going to explore a bit about how we worked.

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As somebody who works on AWS projects across numerous projects, teams, and industries; I see the following three common types of infrastructure problems. I think the Pulumi Registry provides an incredible solution to each of these problems and will fundamentally change how people interact with AWS.

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It’s the end of the 2021 calendar year here at Pulumi, and like everyone, we’re counting down until 2022 while looking back at our year. We’ve had a very exciting year! In case you missed anything from our past year, here’s a rundown of the top stories from Pulumi:

January

Pulumi became SOC2 certified in early January 2021.

February

We brought support for all four official Pulumi languages to EKS.

We released Python support for our powerful Automation API.

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Using Pulumi is more than just writing code and components. In addition to common software development practices, there are also a number of success patterns related to how your company or team builds and deploys Pulumi programs to successfully build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure and applications. In this continuation of a series, I will explore one of these patterns - using the Pulumi Automation API to create a developer portal.

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Pulumi provides an amazingly rich interface for developers and operators to define their Kubernetes workloads, providing typed access to recourses from the Kubernetes API and allowing our IDEs to provide code completion and refactoring opportunities through the native language plugins.

As great as that is, it’s always gotten a little cumbersome when it comes to Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), as the first option is to leverage the CustomResource escape-hatch that allows you to define any Kubernetes object you wish; however this does mean we lose the rich interface we’ve become accustomed to.

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Cloud engineering is taking over software development. In a lot of ways, this is great; it allows us to build and deploy more complicated applications with less difficulty, and maintaining those applications becomes less troublesome too. We can release smaller updates more quickly than ever, ensuring that we can stay on top of feature requests and security issues. That said, the rise of cloud engineering has also introduced a lot of complexity in the form of dozens of services even within just one cloud provider. Figuring out where to start can be tough, so let’s take a practical tour! In this series, I’ll walk you through building a personal website and deploying it using modern cloud engineering practices.

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Cloud engineering is taking over software development. In a lot of ways, this is great; it allows us to build and deploy more complicated applications with less difficulty, and maintaining those applications becomes less troublesome too. We can release smaller updates more quickly than ever, ensuring that we can stay on top of feature requests and security issues. That said, the rise of cloud engineering has also introduced a lot of complexity in the form of dozens of services even within just one cloud provider. Figuring out where to start can be tough, so let’s take a practical tour! In this series, I’ll walk you through building a personal website and deploying it using modern cloud engineering practices.

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This time last year, I presented Applying the Law of Demeter to GitOps at GitOps Days 2020. The Law of Demeter is a design principle, proposed in 1988, which encourages loose coupling between systems. During this session, I wanted the audience to understand and be able to identify when their applications and continuous delivery pipelines have too much knowledge of the platform in which they’re going to run. As an industry, we’re seeing a great deal of momentum towards Platform Engineering and with this comes a Broca divide, a strict division of responsibilities: to build a platform and to consume a platform.

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Using Pulumi is more than just writing code and components. In addition to common software development practices, there are also a number of success patterns related to how your company or team builds and deploys Pulumi programs to successfully build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure and applications. In this continuation of a series, I will explore one of these patterns - a specialized automation team.

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Using Pulumi is more than just writing code and components. In addition to common software development practices, there are also a number of success patterns related to how your company or team builds and deploys Pulumi programs to successfully build, deploy, and manage your infrastructure and applications. In this first post of a series, I will explore one of these patterns - the centralized platform infrastructure repository.

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