Posts Tagged platform-engineering

The Platform Engineering & DevOps in-person series launched in Berlin with two great speakers. This blog article is an overview of Dominik Kress’s talk, “What the Heck is the CNCF Platform Working Group? Answers from a Member!” in which he discussed Cloud-Native Platforms, The Platform Maturity Model, and approaching Platforms as Products.

In this article, you’ll learn more about platform engineering and how to get involved with the CNCF Platform Working Group. Make sure to check our Pulumi User Groups (PUGs) to find a meetup near you.

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The cloud promised to revolutionize your business.

Faster innovation. Lower costs. Unlimited scalability.

But for many companies, that promise remains frustratingly out of reach. Instead of accelerating product development, infrastructure has become a bottleneck. You and your team (DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering teams) are bogged down by:

• Clunky tools and manual processes
• Provisioning a simple test environment takes days
• Rolling out updates across regions takes weeks
• The combinations of modern cloud architectures seems infinite

You know there has to be a better way. A way to truly harness the power of the cloud and turn it into your competitive advantage.

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We are excited to announce the kickoff of the Platform Engineering & DevOps Series, which will run from July 16 to October 31. This series will feature in-person events across various cities, including Berlin, London, Paris, Sydney, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, Denver, and NYC. For those unable to attend an in-person event, we encourage you to participate in a virtual DevOps & Platform Engineering workshop.

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Last October we launched Pulumi ESC, a new secrets and configuration management offering from Pulumi that manages and tames secrets and configuration complexity across all of your cloud applications and infrastructure. We’ve seen incredible adoption of ESC over the last 6 months, with thousands of developers now managing their secrets and configuration via ESC.

Today, we are excited to announce the most significant collection of Pulumi ESC enhancements since the initial launch, with three major new features that bring best-in-class software engineering capabilities to bear on your Secrets and Configuration management needs.

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We are excited to announce the support for authoring Azure Deployment Environments (ADE) environment definitions in Pulumi Infrastructure as Code (IaC) empowering developers to self-serve app infrastructure required to deploy and test cloud-based applications. With Pulumi support, you can now manage your Azure resources in these environments using the same familiar programming model and the full power of our IaC platform.

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We’re constantly evolving the New Project Wizard to make it the preferred choice for platform teams to empower their internal teams to deploy resources quickly and in adherence to organizational standards. In January, we launched the Developer Portal Gallery to boost development velocity and reduce operational friction. Since then, we have seen strong adoption from our customers and received several new requests. We are excited to share the latest improvements we’ve made.

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“Developer experience is hard to sell,” said Cleve Littlefield, Engineering Manager at Pulumi, during a casual meeting. With experience as both an end-user developer and a lead in self-service platform implementation, Cleve’s observation stuck with me.

Though I have expertise in leading implementations and upgrades for internal platforms, none were specifically for developers. However, experience remains vital across departments, addressing tools, processes, systems, and best practices, aiming to reduce cognitive load, increase productivity, enhance collaboration, boost communication and much more.

Intriguingly, engineering teams may perceive its value differently. Therefore, we will dive into the concept of developer experience, aka DevEx, which, in truth, should translate into a competitive advantage.

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Late last year we announced Pulumi for Developer Portals: a suite of features designed to empower organizations to construct robust internal developer portals. Since launching the level of adoption and customer interest has led us to make further improvements to enhance developer productivity and collaboration in the authoring experience. We are excited to announce the latest enhancement in Pulumi Cloud: the introduction of a template gallery in New Project Wizard, making creating cloud infrastructure easier than ever.

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The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with DevOps signals a new era in software development. DevOps possesses unique characteristics and needs that make it exceptionally compatible with AI augmentation. Given that code fundamentally relies on language, and large language models (LLMs) serve as the core of GPT functionality, these models are particularly well-suited for tasks such as code generation. This article unwraps the topics addressed during our “AI: Friends or Foe | AI Talks for DevOps” event in San Francisco.

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Pulumi’s policy as code engine, CrossGuard, is already very flexible, and can enforce custom or predefined policies across a wide variety of use cases, including security, compliance, cost, and overall best practices. CrossGuard warns or issues errors should a deployment attempt to violate a policy. Last week we announced a new extension to CrossGuard called remediation policies. Remediation policies don’t just check for compliance, they go ahead and actually fix the problems in place. This ensures that every deployment across your entire team conforms, no questions asked, while also not needing to pester end users to remember all of the rules as they write their infrastructure as code, such as tagging resources a specific way. In this post, we will dig deeper into remediation policies and their use cases.

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