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This is the third of a three-part series originally published on The New Stack. Read Part 1 and Part 2.

Engineers who modernize their Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi get two classes of benefits:

1. Infrastructure as Code to develop cloud infrastructure with code.
2. Pulumi Cloud, which tames cloud infrastructure management at scale.

We’ve covered a fair bit of the first above, but have yet to scratch the surface for the second.

Many Infrastructure as Code solutions require that you explicitly manage something typically referred to as “state.” This state is an artifact produced that keeps track of what you think your infrastructure looks like, as defined by your Infrastructure as Code, so that it can be easily compared to what your actual infrastructure looks like. This is how diffs and updates can be done. Every Infrastructure as Code tool stores this infrastructure state, which is really just metadata about all the cloud resources, properties and dependencies. However, how much the tool exposes you to it varies.

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This is the second of a three-part series originally published on The New Stack.

Following the first piece in this series, Infrastructure as Code in Any Programming Language, this walkthrough will show what it takes to get up and running with Infrastructure as Code. Everything we show will be done with Pulumi’s free and open source Infrastructure as Code SDK. You can also sign up for Pulumi Cloud. After discussing the basics of how to get going, we’ll then dive into some advanced use cases to show what you can do from there.

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This is the first of a three-part series originally published on The New Stack.

Infrastructure as Code is a technology for automating the infrastructure for your cloud applications. If you’re an engineer, whether that’s developing a backend service or within a central platform team, it’s not just about writing application code. You’ll need to provision, update and perform other tasks associated with its supporting infrastructure, and that’s where Infrastructure as Code can help. Instead of manually pointing-and-clicking in the cloud console, which is unrepeatable and error-prone, or writing ad-hoc scripts, which can be tedious and hard to scale, Infrastructure as Code lets us, as engineers, use familiar techniques by just writing code.

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