Posts Tagged cloudformation

Cloud computing tools evolve, and so must the frameworks developers rely on. For SST (Serverless Stack), AWS CDK was a great starting point—but it had limitations.

• CDK tied infrastructure to AWS.
• Debugging was frustrating due to CloudFormation templates.
• Multi-cloud was nearly impossible.

The solution? Pulumi. In this post, we’ll explore why SST moved to Pulumi, what challenges they overcame, and what this means for developers building modern cloud applications.

TL;DR: Pulumi lets SST offer a faster, more flexible, and provider-agnostic infrastructure experience.

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When I am talking with community members, who are not using Pulumi yet, I often get asked what would be a good way to include their Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into existing software like a REST API. And my answer is always the same: Use our Pulumi Automation API.

With the Pulumi Automation API you can include Pulumi IaC into your existing software, and this for any of the Pulumi supported programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Go, or C#. This gives you a greater flexibility and control, which you will not have with other IaC tools like CloudFormation or Terraform.

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Our users are always telling us (particularly the ones who come to Pulumi from other IaC tools) that being able to use general-purpose languages to manage their infrastructure was a game changer for them.

I know it was for me. As a JavaScript developer, when I discovered Pulumi and saw that I could do pretty much everything I was doing with Terraform but with TypeScript, I was immediately hooked; that’s all it took. Just being able to write my resource declarations in a language I knew well (and that my IDE understood) was huge.

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