As a developer, I get lots of ideas for web apps—little things, mostly: nifty ways to keep track of my kids’ allowances, habit trackers, shopping lists. Most of them, however, never see the light of day, and not just because I’m lazy; I also tend to get hung up trying to decide what to use for the technology stack.
We recently partnered with DigitalOcean to publish a new tutorial, How to Manage DigitalOcean and Kubernetes Infrastructure with Pulumi. This short tutorial walks you through provisioning a new DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster, deploying an application to it, and then assigninging a stable domain name to your application’s load balancer — all in a handful of lines of infrastructure as code.
By using infrastructure as code to provision and update your infrastructure, it’s easy to create new environments, modify or scale existing ones, or automate your deployments using continuous delivery. This approach also ensures that deployments are reliable and repeatable, and can even standardize how you deploy code to different cloud providers, including DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure, GCP, and others.
Pulumi recently added support for managing DigitalOcean resources. This article will show you how to deploy some load balanced Droplets on DigitalOcean using Pulumi.