Simple, Reproducible Kubernetes Deployments
Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestrator for cloud native
applications that can run on any cloud – AWS, Azure, GCP – in
addition to hybrid and on-premises environments. Its CLI, kubectl,
offers basic built-in support for performing deployments, but
intentionally stops short here. In particular, it doesn’t offer diffs
and previews, the ability to know when a deployment has succeeded or
failed, and why, and/or sophisticated deployment orchestration.
In this post, we’ll see how Pulumi, an open source cloud native development platform, can not only let you express Kubernetes programs in familiar programming languages, like TypeScript, instead of endless YAML templates, but also how Pulumi delivers simple and reproducible, yet powerful, Kubernetes deployment workflows.