Posts Tagged hcl

The Java Language Architect at Oracle, Brian Goetz, author of Java Concurrency in Practice, has commented how declarative languages can be a double-edged sword: HashiCorp’s infrastructure as code solution, Terraform, uses a domain-specific language (DSL) to declare cloud resources. Pulumi’s infrastructure as code solution, on the other hand, lets you choose from any number of modern languages – C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Python, or TypeScript – or the industry-standard markup language YAML, to declare cloud resources.

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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#.

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Every experienced tech professional I know has a programming language they love. But is it the syntax and symbols that make it so loveable? Not really. It’s the community and package ecosystem surrounding the language that makes a real impact on your heart… and on your productivity!

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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.

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