Creating a Python AWS Application Using Flask and Redis
Meet Vova Ivanov—one of the Pulumi summer interns. He’ll be writing about his experiences learning Pulumi while modernizing a web app and its underlying infrastructure.
Posts Tagged docker
Build a Pulumi VS Code Devcontainer Environment
One of the major advantages of using containers for development is reducing the need to install software and associated dependencies. Developers can start writing code without configuring a development environment that emulates production. The Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers extension lets you develop inside a container. If you want to use Pulumi’s infrastructure as code engine without installing the Pulumi CLI, this blog post is for you!
Introducing New Slimmer Docker Images
One of the most exciting aspects of using Pulumi can also present some interesting engineering challenges. Pulumi supports three operating systems, multiple programming languages, and almost 40 different providers. This means creating tooling that works effortlessly across all possible user scenarios can often throw unexpected challenges our way.
Nowhere are these challenges more prevalent than in the Pulumi Docker containers.
The pulumi/pulumi Docker container is almost 3Gb uncompressed, which is generally considered large for a Docker image. In this post, I’ll examine why this container has grown to the size that it is, and talk about how we hope to solve it.
Introducing Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS: The Easiest Way to AWS
Some of the code in this post is out of date. See the AWS guides for an updated overview and examples.
Amazon Web Services provides an incredible platform for developers to build cloud-native applications, and is used by millions of customers of all sizes. The building block services that AWS offers enable teams to offload undifferentiated heavy-lifting to AWS. To maximally benefit from these services though, cloud engineering teams must learn how to compose all of these building blocks together to build and deliver their own applications. Today, this is still too hard. Getting from your laptop to a production-ready AWS deployment frequently takes days or weeks instead of minutes or hours. And AWS building block services frequently leave you to re-implement (and re-discover) best-practices instead of providing these as smart defaults.
Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS is a new open source library of infrastructure-as-code components that make it easier to get from zero to production on AWS, easier to adopt AWS best practices by default, and easier to evolve your AWS infrastructure as your application needs mature.
Pulumi and Docker: Development to Production
Here at Pulumi, we’re big fans of Docker: at this point there is little
doubt that Docker has completely revolutionized the way that we think
about deploying software. However, even in 2019, it’s quite difficult to
get Docker containers to production. docker run is great, and we all
love it, but unfortunately it’s quite a big leap from docker run to
running your container in a production-ready environment.
We recently wrote a blog post about using AWS Fargate to run your docker containers with our open source packages. In this blog post we’re going to focus on another interesting aspect of Pulumi: being able to re-use your infrastructure code for both development and production!