Announcing Microsoft Teams Webhook Integration for Pulumi Cloud

Meagan Cojocar Meagan Cojocar Komal Ali Komal Ali
Announcing Microsoft Teams Webhook Integration for Pulumi Cloud

Getting your Pulumi notifications into Microsoft Teams is now easier than ever. Organizations using Pulumi Cloud have previously been setting up Microsoft Teams notifications for their stacks using Pulumi Cloud Webhooks. Webhooks can attach to a Pulumi organization or a Pulumi stack. Starting today, customers can set up a Microsoft Teams integration, for organization or stack notifications, with fewer steps and without needing to host the infrastructure themselves.

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Deploy AI Models on Amazon SageMaker using Pulumi Python IaC

Kat Morgan Kat Morgan
Deploy AI Models on Amazon SageMaker using Pulumi Python IaC

Running models from Hugging Face on Amazon SageMaker is a popular deployment option for AI/ML services. While the SageMaker console allows for provisioning these cloud resources, this deployment pattern is labor intensive to document and vulnerable to human errors when reproducing as a regular operations practice. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) offers a reliable and easy to duplicate deployment practice. By developing this IaC with Pulumi, practitioners can choose to write their infrastructure code in Python and seamlessly develop both AI application code and IaC code in the same language.

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The Real AI Challenge is Cloud, not Code!

Kat Morgan Kat Morgan
The Real AI Challenge is Cloud, not Code!

The AI industry is stealing the show as tech’s goldrush of the ’20s. Just looking at ChatGPT’s record setting user growth, and rapid 3rd party integration by top brands, it is not surprising the hype suggests this is the beginning of a major digital transformation. However, using AI/ML in your own products has some major challenges and obstacles. Below is a diagram of the end to end workflow of building and using an AI model: preparing the data, training a model, fine-tuning a model, hosting and running a model, building a backend service to serve the model, and building the user interface that interacts with the model.

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Announcing 6.0 of the Pulumi AWS Classic Provider

Mikhail Shilkov Mikhail Shilkov Monica Rodriguez Monica Rodriguez
Announcing 6.0 of the Pulumi AWS Classic Provider

We are excited to announce 6.0 of the Pulumi AWS Classic provider. The AWS Classic provider is the most heavily used provider across the entire Pulumi ecosystem, and offers access to the full surface area of the upstream Terraform AWS Provider in Pulumi projects in all supported languages. The 6.0 release brings a substantial set of fixes and improvements to the provider, including a number of breaking changes as part of the major version release.

This blog post walks you through the list of notable changes in the new major version.

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Admin Organization Access Tokens in Pulumi Cloud

Meagan Cojocar Meagan Cojocar Devon Grove Devon Grove
Admin Organization Access Tokens in Pulumi Cloud

Last year we launched Organization Access Tokens for Pulumi Cloud, service tokens not tied to individual users, ideal for garnering programmatic access for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and other automated processes. After launching this feature we saw record level adoption, with a majority of customers who could use it creating Organization Access Tokens within a matter of weeks.

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How Starburst Data Creates Infrastructure Automation Magic With Code

George Huang George Huang
How Starburst Data Creates Infrastructure Automation Magic With Code

This blog post summarizes a presentation by Matt Stephenson at PulumiUP 2023. Matt Stephenson is Senior Principal Software Engineer for Starburst Data and a Puluminary member. He’s deeply involved in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) space, having contributed to Ansible, been a core contributor to Apache jclouds, and has written many Terraform plugins. He leads infrastructure architecture at Starburst and originally introduced Pulumi to the company. Starburst provides a data lake analytics platform that’s powered by Trino - an open-source distributed SQL query engine designed for running fast analytic queries across large datasets in multiple data sources.

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Pulumi adoption made easy with the new Migration Hub

Joe Duffy Joe Duffy
Pulumi adoption made easy with the new Migration Hub

Today we are launching Pulumi’s new Migration Hub, a comprehensive guide to help you seamlessly adopt Pulumi no matter where you are coming from, whether that’s Terraform, CloudFormation, … or even manually provisioned resources not yet governed by an infrastructure as code solution. Our new Expert Services group is ready to roll up their sleeves to help you adopt Pulumi faster. The Migration Hub also features many commercial offers for open source foundations, startups, and complementary migration, to minimize switching costs and risks. It’s never been easier to adopt Pulumi.

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Pulumi 💜's Open Source

Joe Duffy Joe Duffy
Pulumi 💜's Open Source

Pulumi stands with the open source community. We are unaffected by HashiCorp relicensing their software yesterday, and express profound support for many of our cloud friends who have been affected. Pulumi is true open source, uses the Apache 2.0 license, and does not and never will depend on BSL-licensed software in any way, HashiCorp owned or otherwise. We look forward to continuing to serve our new and loyal customers, always with open source and our amazing, fast-growing community at our core.

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How a Bank Modernized Its Software Engineering With Infrastructure as Code Automation

George Huang George Huang
How a Bank Modernized Its Software Engineering With Infrastructure as Code Automation

This blog post summarizes a presentation by Dennis Sauvé at PulumiUP 2023. Washington Trust Bank, the largest independently-owned full-service commercial bank in the Northwest, has served personal, private, commercial and wealth management clients throughout the region since 1902. It has assets exceeding $11 billion and currently has 42 branches and offices in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. As an FDIC-governed financial institution, it is imperative for the bank to maintain secure, reliable, and compliant cloud resources to protect clients’ personal data.

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