Equinix recently released their self-maintained, fully-supported Pulumi provider, available in the Pulumi Registry. In this post, you’ll get an overview of the Equinix resources the provider can manage and we’ll show you how to deploy a Kubernetes cluster and associated workloads on Equinix Metal.
This is the fourth post in a series of blog posts focused on Zephyr Archaeotech Emporium—our fictional company—and their use of Pulumi to manage their online retail store. In the first three posts, you saw how Zephyr’s initial use of Pulumi changed as the company grew, and how the use of short-lived per-developer stacks helped Zephyr’s application development team meet the demands of a fast-growing company. This post is a complement to the earlier post on structuring Pulumi projects, discussing how Zephyr uses Stack References to link their projects together and sharing some IaC best practices around the use of Stack References.
When building with Kubernetes for the first time, we often need to stand up a lot of infrastructure just to get to the point of having a base to build an application. Let’s explore how we can wire together two of our architecture templates to generate a base for a web application running on Kubernetes on Google Cloud with Python and Poetry.
Pulumi’s Universal Infrastructure as Code platform works with all major clouds and over 100 cloud and SaaS providers, but among all its uses one of the most important is the ability to bring rich Infrastructure as Code tools and practices to Kubernetes projects and teams.
Kubernetes is one of the most used platforms in Pulumi, second only to AWS, with thousands of organizations using Pulumi to manage clusters at scale. Pulumi supports a wide variety of use cases around Kubernetes - from cluster creation and management, to rich and expressive workload definition, to continuous delivery and infrastructure GitOps.
Kubernetes resources often have more than one controller making changes to them. These controllers can include kubectl, the Kubernetes control plane, custom operators, or infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Pulumi.
With the v3.20.1 release of the Kubernetes provider, you have some powerful new options for managing shared resources in Kubernetes. In this post, we show you
how Pulumi can help you work with shared resources safely and effectively.
Some of the largest and most complex deployments that teams manage are hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Kubernetes is a common component in these deployments because it enables platform teams to provide a common set of services across cloud and on-premises infrastructure and simplifies the process of migrating and scaling workloads as demand fluctuates. Pulumi simplifies these deployment scenarios but teams often need to manage different flavors of Kubernetes for on-premises deployments versus cloud deployments.
At PulumiUP 2022, Tomas Jansson, software architect at Elkjøp Nordic, gave a presentation on how to enable developers to self-service infrastructure by using Pulumi’s Automation API.
Elkjøp Nordic is the leading consumer electronics retailer in the Nordics. The company sells consumer electronics, mobile phones, computers, white goods, domestic appliances, and services linked to these products both directly to consumers and to businesses. It is an omnichannel retailer and serves customers both online and through more than 400 stores. Elkjøp has retail outlets in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and franchise operations in Greenland and Faroe Islands.
In this article we’ll show you how to use Pulumi Components and the Pulumi Automation API to make golden path decisions which will both support your customers on multiple different clouds, and enable infrastructure teams and frontend service teams to more easily own their respective parts of your codebase.
With the launch of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in 2017, it is now easier than ever to build, secure, operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters in the cloud. Notably, EKS removed the need to manage and configure underlying compute resources and scaling for clusters. Further, EKS Anywhere brings many benefits to hybrid and on-premises deployments.
These developments have proved to be a huge leap forward in productivity for teams that manage cloud infrastructure, enabling them to focus their efforts on deploying applications to meet the needs of customers and stakeholders.
Managing containers and Kubernetes clusters are consistently popular topic areas on the Pulumi blog and in our docs. Our customers regularly cite that Pulumi simplifies container management scenarios, making it the primary reason for choosing Pulumi to define, deploy and manage all of their cloud resources. This includes teams that are just starting their cloud journey and spinning up their first project, as well as teams that want to modernize their apps and services with cloud-native architectures or even scale from one to many clouds.