It’s the end of 2024, and like everyone, we’re counting down until 2025 while looking back at our year. We’ve had a very exciting year, from unveiling a bold new vision for Pulumi to delivering cutting-edge updates across our Pulumi Cloud.
Here’s a look at how Pulumi has grown, evolved, and continued empowering teams worldwide.
PulumiUP 2024 is just around the corner! It will be held on September 18th, starting at 8 AM PT | 15:00 UTC +0, and with over 5,500 engineers from all over the world already registered, this is shaping up to be the must-attend event for cloud professionals, platform engineers, and AI/ML enthusiasts alike. From entry-level engineers to tech executives, this event brings together professionals from companies of all sizes to explore the latest innovations and best practices in Cloud and IaC, Platform Engineering & DevOps, and AI/ML.
If you haven’t registered yet, now’s the time! Start building your schedule today, select the talks you want to watch live and on-demand and add them to your schedule.
The Platform Engineering & DevOps in-person series launched in Berlin with two great speakers. This blog article is an overview of Dominik Kress’s talk, “What the Heck is the CNCF Platform Working Group? Answers from a Member!” in which he discussed Cloud-Native Platforms, The Platform Maturity Model, and approaching Platforms as Products.
In this article, you’ll learn more about platform engineering and how to get involved with the CNCF Platform Working Group. Make sure to check our Pulumi User Groups (PUGs) to find a meetup near you.
We are excited to announce the kickoff of the Platform Engineering & DevOps Series, which will run from July 16 to October 31. This series will feature in-person events across various cities, including Berlin, London, Paris, Sydney, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Denver, and NYC. For those unable to attend an in-person event, we encourage you to participate in a virtual DevOps & Platform Engineering workshop.
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with DevOps signals a new era in software development. DevOps possesses unique characteristics and needs that make it exceptionally compatible with AI augmentation. Given that code fundamentally relies on language, and large language models (LLMs) serve as the core of GPT functionality, these models are particularly well-suited for tasks such as code generation. This article unwraps the topics addressed during our “AI: Friends or Foe | AI Talks for DevOps” event in San Francisco.
The emergence of DevOps revolutionized software development. Now, with AI powered tools like LangChain, these transformations are being accelerated. Unsurprisingly, our distinguished speaker at the launch of Pulumi’s in-person AI Talks, Patrick Debois, who coined the term “DevOps,” has recently tuned into LLM and GenAI Ops using the Langchain framework.
Bicep is a DSL developed by Microsoft to simplify the authoring of ARM templates and deploy resources to Azure. Today I will be sharing with you a new Pulumi converter plugin that I have been working on that converts Bicep code to any of the supported Pulumi languages.
Matt Stephenson is Senior Principal Software Engineer for Starburst Data and a Puluminary member. He’s deeply involved in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) space, having contributed to Ansible, been a core contributor to Apache jclouds, and has written many Terraform plugins. He leads infrastructure architecture at Starburst and originally introduced Pulumi to the company. Starburst provides a data lake analytics platform that’s powered by Trino - an open-source distributed SQL query engine designed for running fast analytic queries across large datasets in multiple data sources. At Starburst, Matt helped revamp and improve how the company manages its multi-cloud and cloud native infrastructure.
We have a global community made up of people from many different countries, but we also have many local communities. We want to enable our users to meet, share knowledge and ideas, answer questions, and learn about Pulumi and best practices. For that reason, we created the Pulumi User Groups, aka PUGs on Meetup.
Members of PUGs will have access to a global network of experts who can offer help, advice, and support on using Pulumi effectively. The PUGs will also feature regular in-person meetups, webinars, in-person and virtual workshops, and other events to help members stay up-to-date with the latest cloud infrastructure and Pulumi developments.
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. Women’s experiences - as well as men’s and nonbinary’s experiences - inform the direction of digital technology and innovation.