In this post, we’re introducing a powerful new capability in Pulumi Insights that extends policy as code (PaC) beyond infrastructure as code to automatically govern all cloud resources in your environment. By unifying policy enforcement across both IaC and discovered resources, you can now write policies once and apply them universally - dramatically simplifying how organizations maintain security and compliance standards at scale.
Programming languages offer dozens of advantages for writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). One of them is that Large Language Models are effective at using general-purpose programming languages, thanks to the vast amount of high-quality training data available. Building on this advantage, we introduced Pulumi AI and Pulumi Copilot last year to enhance Infrastructure-as-Code development with generative AI capabilities. These tools have significantly streamlined infrastructure deployment for tens of thousands of developers.
Today, we are thrilled to announce that Pulumi Copilot is now available directly within Pulumi Copilot Chat Extension. By simply typing @pulumi in Copilot Chat, developers can now access the power of Pulumi Copilot right within their IDE, saving them time on writing IaC and getting infrastructure deployed.
I’m thrilled to announce that you can now customize how Pulumi names your cloud resources! Our default auto-naming feature has helped thousands of customers successfully manage cloud resources at scale by automatically ensuring unique, conflict-free resource names across their cloud deployments. This robust naming system has been particularly valuable for teams managing multiple environments, handling zero-downtime deployments, and maintaining clear resource organization. Today, we’re taking it to the next level by giving you control over how these names are generated.
As we wrap up 2024, let’s look back at the significant features and improvements Pulumi has delivered in the last half of the year. Some key highlights:
Managing secrets and configuration across multiple environments and stacks can easily become complex, leading to duplicated values, inconsistencies, and security risks. Pulumi ESC solves this with composable environments via imports, allowing you to define configuration once and reuse it organization-wide. Now, with the new capabilities to discover environment imports, you gain unprecedented visibility and control, simplifying the management of even the most complex infrastructure and applications.
Pulumi Copilot has been making our customers’ day-to-day tasks easier since its release, and today we’re excited to expand its capabilities—Pulumi Copilot is now available across Pulumi Documentation and pulumi.com, and comes equipped with a powerful new Documentation Skill!
We’re thrilled to unveil the redesigned Pulumi Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Stacks page within Pulumi Cloud console, addressing one of the most upvoted issues in our Pulumi Cloud Requests repository! This revamped experience delivers a significant boost in performance and usability, empowering even the most complex organizations to manage their infrastructure with ease.
We are excited to announce a new feature for Pulumi Copilot: System Prompts. This enhancement empowers organizations to customize Pulumi Copilot’s responses for your organization, making your interactions with our AI assistant even more personalized to save you even more time.
At the heart of Pulumi’s approach to cloud infrastructure and secrets management is a belief in empowering engineers to use the best software engineering tools to manage complexity at scale and to be maximally productive building cloud infrastructure and applications for their businesses.
Today, we’re excited to announce a next big step in delivering great software engineering tools for Pulumi users, with the launch of a new Pulumi Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extension. The Pulumi VS Code Extension brings Pulumi key features for Pulumi IaC and Pulumi ESC directly into the IDE environment that many Pulumi users work in every day. Pulumi IaC users can now debug their applications and get Pulumi YAML language support directly in VS Code. And Pulumi ESC users can now create and manage environments, secrets and configuration directly within the IDE with rich IDE features.
We are pleased to announce a major update to the Pulumi ESC’s Table Editor: full support for provider configurations is now live! When we first introduced the ESC Table view, our goal was to offer a user-friendly interface for managing complex configuration and secrets for your applications and infrastructure. This has empowered teams to focus on what they do best—building and deploying software.
In our initial launch, the Table Editor allowed you to perform CRUD operations on your secrets and plaintext values, decrypt secrets, import environments, and manage variables—all within a visual interface. Today, we’re taking the next step by enabling full read-write support for provider configurations within the Table Editor. This new capability allows you to add, edit, and manage your provider configurations directly from the table view, offering a more integrated and seamless experience.