The Pulumi Intern Experience

Sashu Shankar Sashu Shankar
The Pulumi Intern Experience

What is the cloud? Three months ago, that one word simply meant a bunch of water suspended in the atmosphere, but now it means more than that.

Hi, I’m Sashu Shankar, a second-year computer science student at the University of Washington, and this is my life as a Pulumi intern!

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Migrating a cloud application to Kubernetes

Vova Ivanov Vova Ivanov
Migrating a cloud application to Kubernetes

This post is outdated and contains references to a pre-release version of Pulumi Crosswalk (@pulumi/awsx). For updated AWSx documentation and examples, see the AWS Guides.

In this blog post, we will explore and demonstrate the advantages of Kubernetes by converting and deploying our PERN application to Amazon EKS. With the help of Pulumi, the process becomes greatly simplified and allows us to focus more on the big picture of designing our cloud architecture.

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Deploying an OAuth Server for Netlify's CMS

Zephyr Zhou Zephyr Zhou
Deploying an OAuth Server for Netlify's CMS

Some of the code in this post is out of date.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

In our previous post, we deployed our CMS app on AWS instead of Netlify. We couldn’t use Netlify’s Identity Service, which manages GitHub access to Netlify CMS, because we deployed on AWS. As a result, we needed to implement an external OAuth Server.

We used Netlify’s Go example to deploy on ECS Fargate and configure the domain and certificate. To deploy the application on Fargate, we used a Typescript Pulumi project. This is a polyglot application where the OAuth server is implemented in Go and the infrastructure is deployed with Typescript. We’ll show how we accomplished the deployment.

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Deploying a PERN stack application to AWS

Vova Ivanov Vova Ivanov
Deploying a PERN stack application to AWS

Some of the code in this post is out of date.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

In this blog post, we will explore PERN stack applications and deploy one to AWS. PERN is an acronym for PostgreSQL, Express, React, and Node. A PERN stack application is a project that uses PostgreSQL, Express as an application framework, React as a user interface framework, and runs on Node. We will also use Pulumi Crosswalk to reduce the amount of code and provide a quick and straightforward path for deploying the application.

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Deploying Netlify CMS on AWS with Pulumi

Zephyr Zhou Zephyr Zhou
Deploying Netlify CMS on AWS with Pulumi

Netlify CMS is an open-source content management system that provides UI for editing content and adopting Git workflow. Initially, we want to take advantage of it to increase efficiency to edit Pulumi’s website. However, during development, we found few examples are deploying the CMS application on AWS instead of Netlify, its home platform. Therefore, in this blog post, we would like to share how to organize Netlify’s file structure and use Pulumi to store the content on S3 buckets, connect to CloudFront, and configure certificate in Certificate Manager.

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How to Deploy a Django Application to AWS

Vova Ivanov Vova Ivanov
How to Deploy a Django Application to AWS

In this blog post, we will finish swapping out the frontend and backend of our Python AWS application. Although Flask and Redis are different from Django and MySQL in many ways, the underlying infrastructure behind their deployment is nonetheless very similar, and can be effortlessly updated as we transition from one to the other.

We will be paying additional attention to security, and will be making use of Pulumi’s secret management tools to protect our passwords and private keys.

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Announcing Python Tooling Improvements

Justin Van Patten Justin Van Patten
Announcing Python Tooling Improvements

Today we’re excited to announce some fairly significant improvements to the experience of writing Pulumi programs in Python. We’ve added type annotations to APIs and now allow passing nested data as strongly typed classes instead of raw dicts. This provides a much better editing experience in IDEs, improved type checking, and overall consistency.

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Deploying a MySQL schema using Dynamic Providers

Vova Ivanov Vova Ivanov
Deploying a MySQL schema using Dynamic Providers

In our previous post, we created a Python voting application using Flask and Redis. This blog post will explore creating a MySQL database and initializing it with a schema and data. What seems to be a simple step is much more interesting than it appears, because Pulumi’s MySQL provider does not support creating and populating tables. To do it, we will extend it with a Dynamic Provider.

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How Pinpoint Manages Kubernetes Costs and Deployments

Andrew Kunzel Andrew Kunzel Michael Goode Michael Goode
How Pinpoint Manages Kubernetes Costs and Deployments

This guest blog was contributed by Andrew Kunzel and Michael Goode of Pinpoint. Andrew is the Director of Backend Engineering, and Michael is a Platform Operations Engineer.

At Pinpoint, Kubernetes is the most powerful tool in our arsenal. It allows us to deploy and rapidly scale our applications with speed and efficiency that continues to delight our customers. In recent years, managed services like AWS EKS have made it easier than ever to leverage the power of Kubernetes in even the smallest of organizations. Yet even with these new conveniences, managing all of this infrastructure can be a daunting task. Right out of the gate, we knew that we wanted to avoid the burden of maintaining repositories full of home-brewed deployment scripts and domain-specific languages like YAML.

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