How Secrets Sprawl is Slowing You Down—And What to Do About It.

Engin Diri Engin Diri
How Secrets Sprawl is Slowing You Down—And What to Do About It.

Only a few things are certain in the lives of developers and DevOps engineers: taxes, yearly performance reviews, and secret sprawl. While the first two are inevitable, the last one is something that can be managed.

As we keep adding new cloud resources and releasing new applications, the number of secrets we need to manage keeps growing: passwords, API keys, certificates, and more. And as if this isn’t enough, we need to manage secrets across different systems and environments with different teams that need to access them; we end up with duplicates.

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The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

Sara Huddleston Sara Huddleston Josh Kodroff Josh Kodroff
The Guide to Platform Engineering: 7 Steps to Get It Right

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organizations are increasingly adopting platform engineering to optimize their software delivery and operations. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have platform engineering teams to provide reusable services, components, and tools for application delivery. Additionally, by 2027, 80% of large enterprises will leverage platform engineering to scale DevOps initiatives in hybrid cloud environments effectively.

This shift is driven by the rise of cloud adoption, where many enterprises face the challenge of uncoordinated application teams deploying workloads in different ways across various cloud platforms. This siloed approach often results in a lack of standardization, security risks, and operational inefficiencies.

Platform engineering offers a strategic solution to these issues. This guide provides the essential steps to successfully implement platform engineering, from laying the foundation to scaling internal developer platforms (IDPs) for future growth.

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Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0

Eron Wright Eron Wright
Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0

Update: “Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 2.0 is Now Generally Available!”

A few years ago we released the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator, a cloud-native way to manage and deploy cloud infrastructure using Pulumi from within your Kubernetes environment. We’ve heard your feedback about limitations related to scalability and isolation. Today, we’re excited to announce a preview release of version v2.0 of the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator. We’ve put a new, horizontally scalable architecture in place along with a variety of new security features and customization options. Let’s dig in!

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Pulumi EKS Provider Version 3.0.0

Florian Stadler Florian Stadler
Pulumi EKS Provider Version 3.0.0

The latest major release of the Pulumi EKS Provider is available now!

This release delivers significant improvements in flexibility, security and introduces new features to enhance your Kubernetes experience on AWS. AWS recently announced the deprecation of two features used by default in Pulumi EKS: the aws-auth ConfigMap and the AL2 operating system. Pulumi EKS v3 addresses these deprecations, enhances the maintainability of the provider, and aligns it with EKS best practices.

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Pulumi ESC and External Secrets Operator: The Perfect Solution for Today's Cloud-Native Secret Management

Engin Diri Engin Diri
Pulumi ESC and External Secrets Operator: The Perfect Solution for Today's Cloud-Native Secret Management

Managing secrets in a cloud-native environment can be challenging, but it is crucial for ensuring the security and integrity of any application or infrastructure. We encounter a lot of different types of secrets, from API keys, database passwords, and certificates to tokens and passwords. These secrets need to be stored securely and accessed by different services in a secure way without exposing any sensitive information to unauthorized users.

Here is where Pulumi ESC and External Secrets Operator come into play by providing a secure and efficient solution for cloud-native secret management.

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Unified and Programmatic Approach to Infrastructure Management at BMW Using Pulumi

Sara Huddleston Sara Huddleston
Unified and Programmatic Approach to Infrastructure Management at BMW Using Pulumi

In the ever-evolving world of automotive technology, BMW has been at the forefront of innovation, seamlessly integrating software into the heart of their vehicles. As cars become increasingly complex, with a growing emphasis on connectivity, over-the-air upgrades, and brand-specific user experiences, the need for a robust and scalable software development approach has become paramount.

Enter the BMW Software Factory, a platform that aims to empower the company’s developers and provide them with a superior development experience. At the core of this initiative is the adoption of Pulumi, a modern infrastructure as code (IaC) solution that has transformed the way BMW manages its software ecosystem.

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