Posts Tagged aws

Enforcing Policy as Code on Discovered Resources with Pulumi

Enforcing Policy as Code on Discovered Resources with Pulumi

In this post, we’re introducing a powerful new capability in Pulumi Insights that extends policy as code (PaC) beyond infrastructure as code to automatically govern all cloud resources in your environment. By unifying policy enforcement across both IaC and discovered resources, you can now write policies once and apply them universally - dramatically simplifying how organizations maintain security and compliance standards at scale.

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Run DeepSeek-R1 on AWS EC2 Using Ollama

Run DeepSeek-R1 on AWS EC2 Using Ollama

This weekend, my “for you” page on all of my social media accounts was filled with only one thing: DeepSeek. DeepSeek really managed to shake up the AI community with a series of very strong language models like DeepSeek R1.

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Getting Started with Amazon EKS Auto Mode in Pulumi

Getting Started with Amazon EKS Auto Mode in Pulumi

AWS recently announced Amazon EKS Auto Mode, a significant enhancement to Amazon EKS that streamlines cluster management by automating infrastructure decisions and operations. Today, we are excited to announce that Pulumi fully supports EKS Auto Mode across our AWS provider ecosystem, enabling you to leverage this powerful feature through infrastructure as code.

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Announcing AWS Systems Manager - Parameter Store Support for Pulumi ESC

Announcing AWS Systems Manager - Parameter Store Support for Pulumi ESC

We are super excited to announce integration support for AWS Systems Manager - Parameter Store within Pulumi Environments, Secrets, and Configuration (ESC). Parameter Store is a popular managed service by AWS for storing and managing secrets and other configuration, and its integration with ESC has been highly requested among the community.

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Pulumi for AWS: Automate, Secure, and Manage Your Cloud

Pulumi for AWS: Automate, Secure, and Manage Your Cloud

Pulumi is excited to be at AWS re:Invent this week, where we’re showcasing our broad and deep support for AWS across all our products. From automating infrastructure with Pulumi IaC to securing secrets with Pulumi ESC to managing cloud assets with Pulumi Insights, Pulumi makes AWS a competitive advantage. Whether you’re a developer, DevOps pro, or platform engineer, Pulumi delivers the tools you need to build and manage modern cloud applications with ease.

Stop by the Pulumi re:Invent booth #370 this week to chat with experts on the Pulumi team. If you can’t make it to re:Invent, join our workshop, Accelerating Platform Engineering with Pulumi on AWS, on December 11, 2024, to see how Pulumi can enhance your cloud operations on AWS.

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Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes: Bridging Cloud and On-Premises

Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes: Bridging Cloud and On-Premises

AWS has introduced a new feature for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS): Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes. This addition to the Amazon EKS Hybrid/Edge portfolio allows organizations to maintain their Kubernetes control plane in AWS while running workloads on-premises or at the edge. This hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds - AWS’s reliable and scalable control plane management combined with the flexibility to run workloads wherever they make the most sense for your business.

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Fargate vs EC2

Fargate vs EC2

Building an EKS cluster requires choosing how your containers will actually run - either on EC2 instances you manage or through AWS Fargate’s pod-by-pod approach. The differences can be pretty dramatic in practice. I’m setting up a demo cluster right now using Pulumi, so let me show you what I mean:

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Pulumi EKS Provider Version 3.0.0

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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Announcing the General Availability of Pulumi’s AWS Cloud Control Provider (formerly AWS Native)

Announcing the General Availability of Pulumi’s AWS Cloud Control Provider (formerly AWS Native)

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the new AWS Cloud Control Provider for Pulumi (previously “AWS Native”). AWS is one of the most-used cloud providers across the Pulumi ecosystem, and we are committed to providing the fastest possible access to new AWS capabilities to all Pulumi users. This provider delivers on that promise by providing native support for all resources in the AWS Cloud Control APIs. As part of this launch, we are also renaming the provider from “AWS Native” to “AWS Cloud Control Provider,” based on customer feedback during the preview phase, to provide users with a broader range of advanced cloud management tools exposed by the AWS Cloud Control API. This provider includes the following features and benefits,

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From CDK to Pulumi: The Evolution of SST

From CDK to Pulumi: The Evolution of SST

As cloud computing continues to evolve, so do the tools and frameworks that developers rely on to manage their infrastructure. For the team building Serverless Stack (SST), a framework built to empower application developers, the journey began with AWS’s CDK. While CDK offered a way to define infrastructure using familiar programming languages, it soon became clear that more was needed to meet developers’ growing needs.

Explore SST’s journey from its origins with CDK to its transition to Pulumi, a modern IaC platform that addresses many of the limitations faced by application developers.

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