Read Every Single Error
At Pulumi we read every single error message that our API produces. This is the primary mechanism that led to a 17x YoY reduction in our error rate. You’re probably wondering how reading error messages make them go away.
Iac Recommended Practices: Structuring Pulumi Projects
This is the third post in a series of blog posts focused on Zephyr Archaeotech Emporium—our fictional company—and their use of Pulumi to manage their online retail store. In the first post, you saw how Zephyr initially decided to go with a single Pulumi project for managing deployments of their online retail store application. In this post, you’ll see how Zephyr’s use of Pulumi changes as their company grows and evolves.
Google Cloud: Bulk Importing Resources into Pulumi
Point and click in the console is great when you’re first starting out learning a new cloud or managed service, but it quickly becomes a hindrance when cloud infrastructure is widely adopted by an organization. The point at which the term “widely adopted” becomes applicable to your situation differs, but at some point in their careers, many infrastructure and platform engineers are faced with situations where a large number of critical infrastructure resources were created through “click ops” with no ability to track changes, reproduce environments consistently, and so on. When this happens (and it will probably happen to many of you), it’s time to import those resources into infrastructure as code.
Fortunately, Pulumi has one of the smoothest and most powerful import processes of any IaC tool. In this post, we’re going to show you how to automate the bulk importation of Google Cloud resources into Pulumi! This approach will also work on resources that were created by another IaC tool.
IaC Recommended Practices: Developer Stacks and Git Branches
In the first post of this series, we introduced Zephyr, a fictional company that uses Pulumi to manage its online retail store. Following on from that post, which discusses code organization and stacks, this post explores two more questions users frequently ask when working with Pulumi in teams — namely, How can I best enable multiple developers to collaborate on a Pulumi project? And how can I use Git and Git branching to support this kind of collaboration?
Pulumi Docker Provider 4.0: Build Images Up To 50x Faster
The Pulumi Docker Provider has been a top Pulumi provider since it launched in 2018. It can be used to provision any of the resources available in Docker, including containers, images, networks, volumes and more.
One of the most heavily used features of this provider is the docker.Image resource, which enables Pulumi users to build and (optionally) push a local Docker context (like an application folder) to a registry as part of a Pulumi deployment. Today we are excited to announce a set of improvements to the docker.Image resource driven by the feedback we have received from our community. This set of improvements includes:
- Significantly improved performance (including reduced need for rebuilds)
- BuildKit support (including cross-platform builds)
- Rich Docker build logs inside Pulumi IaC program output
- Pulumi YAML and Pulumi Java support
International Women's Day: Celebrating our Women in Tech
Today is International Women’s Day, and this year the theme is #EmbraceEquity - which means creating an equitable environment. An equitable work environment means understanding that everyone, regardless of gender, religion, ethnicity, background, or resources, brings strength to the workforce and that opportunities should be given to them based on their individual needs. For Pulumi, it means a work environment where everyone can share ideas and respect them even when disagreeing.
IaC Recommended Practices: Code Organization and Stacks
This is the first in a series of blog posts that explores how a fictional company—Zephyr Archaeotech Emporium—uses Pulumi to manage their online retail store. This post explores a couple common questions that users ask when working with Pulumi; specifically, where should I store my Pulumi code? And how do I support multiple environments with Pulumi? This post will provide some guidance and recommended practices around these topics, using Zephyr and their online store as the use case.
Managing Confluent Kafka Clusters with Pulumi
Event streaming is used across diverse industries that demand real-time data processing. Apache Kafka is the most popular open-source streaming platform. Confluent Cloud lets you run Kafka on the cloud provider of your choice.
In this blog post, you’ll use the Confluent Cloud Pulumi provider and Pulumi to create a Kafka cluster, topic, and customer account.
FinOps With Pulumi
What is FinOps? The FinOps Foundation eloquently defines FinOps as “an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance, technology and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.” Simply put, FinOps is the continuous effort to control cloud spend. Just as organizations have adopted operations-focused best practices into software development cycles and have considered how to best insert security best practices along the way, financial best practices may also be codified by developers writing cloud programs.
Organizing AWS Accounts With Pulumi
In an enterprise organization, an IT self-service “vending machine” allows employees to quickly and easily request and receive access to pre-approved cloud resources. Behind the scenes, Pulumi programs may orchestrate any of the requisite resources. We will look at an example of using Pulumi to create an AWS child account, within an AWS Organization.