Posts Tagged azure

Today we’re excited to announce the release of Pulumi Azure Native V3 - a major leap forward for the most comprehensive infrastructure as code solution for Microsoft Azure. This release delivers a remarkable 75% reduction in SDK size while maintaining our complete coverage of the Azure ecosystem.

Pulumi Azure Native provides direct access to the Azure Resource Manager API, making it hands-down the best infrastructure as code solution for Microsoft Azure. Unlike traditional providers that abstract away cloud APIs, Azure Native gives you more resource and property coverage compared to Terraform by directly mapping to Azure’s native REST API. This means:

• Complete API coverage: 100% of Azure resources available in Azure Resource Manager
• Same-day access to new Azure features: No waiting for provider updates
• Advanced property support: Access to all resource properties, not just a subset
• Latest API versions: Always up-to-date with the newest stable Azure APIs

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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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When should you use Cosmos DB on Azure? It’s a hard question to answer.

Azure Cosmos DB tries to do it all - which makes it both powerful and, honestly, kind of confusing. The marketing doesn’t help either. Yeah, it’s a flexible database, but before you jump in, you need to understand how it actually works under the hood, what it’ll cost you, and what trade-offs you’re making by choosing it.

I’m going to break all that down. Here’s a roadmap:

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The latest major release of the Azure Classic Pulumi Provider is available now! Our 6.0 release contains the latest upstream changes to keep you up-to-date along with the latest features and improvements from Pulumi.

The Azure Classic provider is derived from the upstream Terraform AzureRM provider and can be used to provision most resources on Azure. The Azure Classic provider can be used to complement the Pulumi Azure Native provider, our recommended provider, which has amazing resource coverage due to being derived directly from the official specifications. The provider is open source and available on GitHub so you can always follow along with current issues and developments, or even open your first pull request.

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We are excited to announce the support for authoring Azure Deployment Environments (ADE) environment definitions in Pulumi Infrastructure as Code (IaC) empowering developers to self-serve app infrastructure required to deploy and test cloud-based applications. With Pulumi support, you can now manage your Azure resources in these environments using the same familiar programming model and the full power of our IaC platform.

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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. Most AI engineers are only involved in a few steps of the process. However, there is one challenge that is common across the entire workflow: creating and managing the cloud infrastructure is hard.

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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. On the other hand, it also aimed to create more agile development teams as it modernized its software development and infrastructure. Dennis Sauvé, the bank’s first DevOps Engineer, recognized Infrastructure as Code (IaC) as the solution to these challenges.

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We are thrilled to announce the release of the Pulumi Azure Native Provider 2.0, a significant upgrade to Pulumi’s native provider for Microsoft Azure. The Azure Native provider offers the most complete support for Azure possible - with same day access to the entire surface area of the Azure features from Azure Resource Manager. Every property of each module is always represented in the SDKs. The 2.0 release brings a host of exciting features and improvements for performance and usability that will enhance your experience with managing Azure resources and empower you to build robust and scalable cloud infrastructure more efficiently.

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We are happy to announce the delivery of Azure OIDC authentication, one of the most requested features for the Pulumi Azure Native Provider. With the v1.100.0 release, OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication is now fully supported in both the Azure Native and Azure Classic providers. Let’s dig in to learn what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful.

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Denis Willett is a software engineer at the North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies who works on the NOAA Open Data Dissemination Program. His work focuses on leveraging cloud technologies for the development of data processing and machine learning pipelines. Denis did his PhD in Entomology and Nematology at University of Florida and his undergraduate and masters work in Earth Systems at Stanford University. You can read his full bio here.

NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) makes environmental data freely and publicly accessible across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These data include near real-time satellite imagery, weather models, radar feeds, drought information, ocean databases, and a suite of climate data records among many others. This program supports more than 220 datasets and over 24PB of open data. Since its inception, the program has been growing rapidly, almost doubling in size over the past year.

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