Pulumi Blog: Resources

Unified Resources in Pulumi Cloud

Pulumi Insights Team — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0800

We’re excited to announce unified resources in Pulumi Cloud. This powerful new feature automatically consolidates resources from multiple sources into single, comprehensive views. When the same AWS S3 bucket, Azure VM, or Google Cloud database appears in both your IaC stacks and Pulumi Insights, you’ll now see one unified entry instead of duplicates cluttering your search results.

Why We Built This

Cloud resources naturally exist across multiple contexts in modern organizations. The same S3 bucket might be imported into a Pulumi stack, discovered by Pulumi Insights, and referenced in multiple projects. Previously, this created fragmented views with duplicate search results that made it difficult to understand your true infrastructure footprint.

Teams told us they needed a way to see the complete picture of each resource without manually correlating information across different sources. They wanted accurate resource counts, clear visibility into management states, and faster access to all relevant information when troubleshooting issues.

Unified resources solve these challenges by automatically detecting when the same cloud resource appears across multiple sources and consolidating them intelligently.

How It Works

When you search for resources in Pulumi Cloud, our system now automatically identifies duplicates across all sources including:

Resources managed by Pulumi IaC
Resources imported into Pulumi stacks
Resources discovered through Pulumi Insights including resources managed outside of Pulumi IaC

Resources with multiple sources are marked with a distinctive icon in search results. This visual indicator lets you immediately identify which resources have rich, multi-source information available.

The consolidation happens automatically. Your existing workflows continue unchanged, but now with cleaner, more actionable results.

The New Unified Resource Details Page

The centerpiece of this release is the completely redesigned resource details page. Previously, clicking on a resource from different sources led to separate, disconnected views. Now, every resource has a single, unified details page that brings together all available information.

Complete Source Visibility

The new details page shows every source where a resource appears:

Pulumi stacks: See which stacks manage or import this resource
Insights accounts: View all cloud accounts where the resource was discovered
Source metadata: Access provider details, last update times, and source-specific details

Comprehensive Property Views

Compare resource properties across all sources to:

Detect configuration changes between IaC definitions and actual cloud state
View complete metadata from both IaC and cloud discovery
Track property changes over time

Key Benefits for Your Team

Accurate Infrastructure Inventory Get an accurate view of your resources without manual deduplication. Understand exactly what’s running in your cloud accounts and how resources are distributed across regions and projects.

Enhanced Compliance Visibility Instantly identify which resources are managed by IaC versus those created outside your governance processes. Track your progress in bringing unmanaged resources under control.

Faster Incident Response When investigating issues, find all relevant information about a resource in one place. No more switching between multiple views or manually correlating data from different sources.

Learn More

Unified resources are available now for all Pulumi Cloud users. Ready to see unified resources in action? Check out these resources:

Resource search documentation for search tips and filtering options
API reference for programmatic access
Pulumi Insights overview for the complete platform capabilities

We’d love to hear your feedback as you explore unified resources. Share your thoughts in the Pulumi Community Slack or connect with your customer success team.

Start exploring your unified resource inventory today in Pulumi Cloud.

Introducing Google Cloud to Insights Account Discovery

Pulumi Insights Team — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:38:18 -0500

We’re excited to introduce Google Cloud support to Insights Account Discovery. This new capability expands Pulumi’s resource discovery to help you uncover infrastructure in Google Cloud, regardless of how those resources are managed. With full visibility into all of your cloud resources, you can monitor, search, and manage your environments more effectively.

Scan an Entire Google Cloud Project in Minutes

With Pulumi Insights, gaining visibility into your Google Cloud environment is fast and frictionless. Once configured, Pulumi scans your selected project and uncovers resource data across services like Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, IAM, networking, and more. There’s no need to install agents or write custom scripts—just link your account and let Pulumi do the rest.

Within minutes, you’ll have a comprehensive view of your cloud infrastructure, including resources not managed by infrastructure-as-code. From there, you can explore your project, search for specific configurations, and start identifying security gaps, cost inefficiencies, and compliance risks.

Visibility Beyond Infrastructure as Code

While infrastructure as code provides control and repeatability, the reality of most cloud environments includes resources created manually or by third-party automation. Pulumi Insights bridges that gap by discovering all of your resources—regardless of how they were created.

With this unified view, you can:

Identify drift from your intended infrastructure state
Spot resources that may introduce security or cost risks
Enforce compliance across all resources using Pulumi Crossguard
Bring unmanaged resources under Pulumi IaC using Pulumi Interactive Import

This makes Pulumi Insights an essential tool not just for monitoring, but also for cloud governance, compliance, and modernization.

Getting Started

Get started today by creating a Google Cloud Insights Account and start uncovering your hidden resources.

Announcing Public Preview of Insights Account Discovery

Craig Symonds — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:10:00 +0000

Note: This post discusses Pulumi Copilot, which Pulumi Neo has replaced. Learn about Neo →

Enterprise cloud infrastructures are complex environments that are evolved over time and made up of thousands of different kinds of resources. Enabling customers to wrap their arms around this complexity and get a complete understanding of the scope and structure is the goal of the Pulumi Insights 2.0 product.

We are excited to announce the public preview of Insights Account Discovery that makes it easy for you to gain visibility of your entire infrastructure regardless of how it is managed. Insights provides the tools to find, group and drill into your resources as needed to make sense of all aspects of your cloud infrastructure. In addition Copilot AI gives you the ability to get answers about your infrastructure that can be challenging to get in other ways, dramatically simplifying the work needed to move your infrastructure forward.

Account Management

To get started, Insights Account Discovery provides a simple UI approach to setting up all of your infrastructure accounts to be scanned and read into the Insights supergraph. Once discovered, all of your infrastructure resources can then be seen in the Resource Explorer and accessed by Pulumi Copilot and Resource Search, providing you the tools needed to deliver on your strategic infrastructure goals.

Account Discovery starts with the new Accounts page to provide a list of all accounts created along with the current status of the latest account scans. The Accounts page is the single place to go to manage all aspects of the Insights Account Discovery process.

Account Creation

From this page you can create new Accounts to provide the configuration and credentials needed for Insights to regularly scan and manage your infrastructure. Once you create a new top level Account, Insights will automatically create child accounts, based on the underlying platform model, for each group you enabled. These child accounts enable you to control the discovery behavior for each group separately. For example, AWS enables you to divide you infrastructure into regions and Insights will create separate child accounts for each region you specify.

Account Discovery leverages Pulumi ESC to enter and manage the credentials needed for the Discovery process to find and read all of the infrastructure resources. By relying on ESC, Insights aligns with enterprise best practices for creating and handling application secrets.

Understanding Your Infrastructure

Once each of your Accounts have started scanning, your resources will be displayed in the Insights Resources Explorer along with all Infrastructure as Code resources that you have imported. The Resources Explorer and Resources Search enables you to ask questions and factor your resources into logical groupings that significantly improves the process for managing your infrastructure and getting answers to key questions needed for your projects. For example, you can ask the AI Resource Search to ‘Find all public IP addresses’ and any other question you might have about your infrastructure.

More to Come

We are excited about the potential of Pulumi Insights and are working hard to bring additional capabilities to continue to simplify the experience of managing today’s complex cloud environments. Watch for additional features like Pulumi Crossguard Policy support for Discovered resources, along with additional platform support, and more, coming soon.

Insights Account Discovery is free while in public preview, with per-resource pricing for Team, Enterprise and Business Critical tiers coming in Q1 2025.

Conclusion

The addition of Account Discovery significantly expands the scope of Pulumi Insights. You can now leverage the capabilities of Insights 2.0, not just for your Pulumi IaC managed resources, but for all resources in your infrastructure regardless of how they are managed. With Pulumi Copilot and Resource Search, you are able to gain insights and ask questions about your infrastructure that would otherwise be challenging to answer, saving time and providing the critical information needed.

For additional information about Pulumi Insights please refer to: Pulumi Insights

Introducing the new Resources view

Craig Symonds — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:35:35 -0700

Pulumi Insights gives you the tools to stay informed about your cloud infrastructure. Our Resource explorer provides advanced search and filtering too find what you need. Today, we are excited to release an update that adds new ways to factor your resource data, and share those views with other users in your organization!

Factoring the Data

Being able find and group your resources using different fields and properties is the key to gaining the insights needed to understand the status of your infrastructure and determine any future projects needed. The new Resources view provides several updated tools for doing this factoring.

Groups - Resources can be grouped into logical categories, including nested groups. Group resources by properties like stack, modified time, or category to explore your infrastructure from different angles. Relevant aggregations are included for each grouping to help you understand the information at a glance.
Filters - Columns provide type-specific filters to narrow your search. Filters work in conjunction with the free-form search bar, giving you the control to build focused views for different aspects of your infrastructure.
Sorting - Each column supports sorting, and multi-sort support allows multiple columns to be included in the ordering.

Customizing Columns

The updated Resources page enables you to customize the view of your resources by enabling you to control the columns of the table. With the table actions menu you can add and remove columns as well as auto size each of the columns in the table to fit the current content. Like previous versions of the Resources page, this menu also enables you to export the Resources as a CSV file for integration into external tools.

Pinning Favorite Views

Once you have configured the resources view to provide the insights needed, you can now save that view as a pinned view under the Resource tab in the left navigation panel. These pinned views enable the Resources page to act as a dashboard to the most important views and insights into your infrastructure. The views are also defined in the url for the page which means you can freely copy the url and send it to a colleague, or add the URL to a work tracking system to provide context in the task definition.

Overall, the new Resources page provides the tools needed to enable you to gain additional insights and track and manage those insights to ensure your infrastructure is delivering on the goals you have set.