Pulumi Watch: Fast Inner Loop Development for Infrastructure

Luke Hoban Luke Hoban
Pulumi Watch: Fast Inner Loop Development for Infrastructure

A big part of our vision with Pulumi is to bring application developers and infrastructure teams closer together in the cloud. That includes both providing infrastructure teams with better software engineering tools, as well as providing developers with easier access to cloud infrastructure. We are often inspired by looking at great software engineering experiences in other development stacks and applying them to the cloud infrastructure space. Whether it be general-purpose languages and rich IDEs, testing and package management, or components and rich APIs, at Pulumi, we’ve repeatedly applied successful development tools and practices to the challenges of building and scaling modern cloud infrastructure.

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Pulumi Sweeps into KubeCon

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Pulumi Sweeps into KubeCon

Pulumi Booth KubeCon2019

We had a fantastic time at KubeCon in San Diego. At the event, the Pulumi team released two technology previews: Pulumi Crosswalk for Kubernetes and Pulumi Query for Kubernetes.

Crosswalk for Kubernetes is a set of common patterns compiled in playbooks. These patterns reduce the complex Kubernetes API syntax by providing trusted defaults with idiomatic Kubernetes. Checkout a quick introduction to Crosswalk for Kubernetes in this blog post.

Sara Novotny defined observability as “the ability to ask of your system and learn from it” during her keynote with Liz Fong-Jones. Query for Kubernetes enables observability programmatically by exposing resource processes through either batch or streaming queries. Learn more about Query for Kubernetes in our blog post.

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Inside Crosswalk for Kubernetes

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Inside Crosswalk for Kubernetes

This post describes an early version of Crosswalk for Kubernetes. Some of the links, examples, and implementation details may have changed. For the most up-to-date information, see the Pulumi Kubernetes documentation.

Running Kubernetes in production can be challenging. This past year, Pulumi has collected common patterns of usage informed by best practices for provisioning Kubernetes infrastructure and running containerized applications. We call this Pulumi Crosswalk for Kubernetes: a collection of playbooks and libraries to help you to successfully configure, deploy, and manage Kubernetes in a way that works for teams in production.

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Introducing Pulumi Query for Kubernetes

Alex Clemmer Alex Clemmer
Introducing Pulumi Query for Kubernetes

We often need answers to simple questions about Kubernetes resources. Questions like:

  • How many distinct versions of MySQL are running in my cluster?
  • Which Pods are scheduled on nodes with high memory pressure?
  • Which Pods are publicly exposed to the internet via a load-balanced Service?

Each of these questions would normally be answered by invoking kubectl multiple times to list resources of each type, and manually parsing the output to join it together into a single report.

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A Year of Helping Build Production-Ready Kubernetes

Joe Duffy Joe Duffy
A Year of Helping Build Production-Ready Kubernetes

Today we announced Pulumi Crosswalk for Kubernetes, a collection of open source tools, libraries, and playbooks to help developers and operators work together to bring Kubernetes into their organizations. They capture the lessons we learned this past year working with organizations to go from zero to Kubernetes in production for their infrastructure and application workloads. By releasing these as open source, we hope to help everybody be more successful with their Kubernetes projects — as we have learned through experience, it isn’t easy going!

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Introducing kx: Kubernetes for Everyone

Levi Blackstone Levi Blackstone
Introducing kx: Kubernetes for Everyone

Kubernetes provides a rich, standards-based API that works across cloud and on-premise infrastructure. However, many of the API fields are deeply nested and require users to specify the same values redundantly across different resources. While this explicit specification is necessary for Kubernetes to operate, this often leads users to copy-paste existing code to manage the boilerplate.

Today, as part of our Crosswalk for Kubernetes announcement, we’re introducing the Kubernetes Extensions (kx) library for Pulumi. kx is designed to simplify the declaration of Kubernetes resources, and make the API easier for everyone to use.

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Infrastructure as Code with .NET and Pulumi

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Infrastructure as Code with .NET and Pulumi

This post announces .NET Core in preview, which is now fully supported. Pulumi now supports newer .NET versions beyond .NET Core 3.1 mentioned in this article. For the most up-to-date information about using .NET with Pulumi, please see the .NET documentation. With the release of Pulumi for .NET preview, we’ve open the doors to infrastructure as code to even more developers and operators. Millions of .NET developers can now use their favorite languages and open source ecosystems to build modern, cloud native applications. We’ve added support for C#, F#, and Visual Basic. Because .NET Core is available on Windows, Linux, and macOS, you have a choice of platforms to use.

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Pulumi 💜 .NET Core

Joe Duffy Joe Duffy
Pulumi 💜 .NET Core

Today we are excited to announce the Preview of .NET Core support for all of your modern infrastructure as code needs. This means you can create, deploy, and manage your infrastructure, on any cloud, using your favorite .NET language, including C#, F#, and VB.NET.

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Three Infrastructure as Code Blog Posts You Should Read

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Three Infrastructure as Code Blog Posts You Should Read

We are always excited when people join the Infrastructure as Code community and write about their experiences. Pulumi can be used for a range of common tasks such as standardizing VPC builds, building VSphere virtual machines, or deploying your infrastructure from a CI/CD pipeline. Whether it’s TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python you can build your infrastructure with your language and tools of choice. Here are three new blog posts that show how to use Pulumi with code examples to perform these tasks.

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Continuous Delivery on Octopus Deploy using Pulumi

Sophia Parafina Sophia Parafina
Continuous Delivery on Octopus Deploy using Pulumi

Continuous delivery is about making changes in your application and getting them into production securely, quickly, and consistently. Pulumi’s infrastructure as code approach uses source code to model cloud resources, making it ideal for continuous delivery. Your infrastructure code can share the same process as your application code including running unit and integration tests, performing code reviews via Pull Requests, and examining your infrastructure using linters or static analysis tools. Like your application, your cloud infrastructure can be validated and tested before deploying to production. Pulumi can integrate into any CI/CD system (such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI, TravisCI, Codefresh, and others), so let’s take a look at how to implement a deployment server, using Octopus as an example.

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