Posts Tagged security

Since the launch of Pulumi IAM with custom roles and scoped access tokens, organizations have been using fine-grained permissions to secure their automation and CI/CD pipelines. As teams scale to hundreds or thousands of stacks, environments, and accounts, the next challenge is applying those permissions efficiently.

Today, we’re introducing three new capabilities to help you manage permissions more dynamically at scale: tag-based access control, team role assignments, and user role assignments.

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Many developers and platform engineers already use Google accounts daily for email, cloud console access, and collaboration. Until now, signing in to Pulumi Cloud required a GitHub, GitLab, or Atlassian account, or an email/password combination. Today, we’re adding Google as a first-class identity provider, so you can sign in to Pulumi Cloud with the same Google account you already use for everything else.

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Managing database credentials is one of the persistent challenges in cloud infrastructure. Passwords need to be rotated, secrets need to be stored securely, and access needs to be carefully controlled. AWS IAM authentication for RDS offers a better way: instead of managing long-lived passwords, your applications authenticate using short-lived tokens generated from IAM credentials. This approach is more secure, eliminates password rotation overhead, and integrates seamlessly with your existing IAM policies. With Pulumi, you can set up this entire system using reusable components that make IAM authentication a standard part of your infrastructure.

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OpenClaw is everywhere right now. The open-source AI assistant gained 9,000 GitHub stars in a single day, received public praise from former Tesla AI head Andrej Karpathy, and has sparked a global run on Mac Minis as developers scramble to give this “lobster assistant” a home. Users are calling it “Jarvis living in a hard drive” and “Claude with hands”—the personal AI assistant that Siri promised but never delivered.

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We’re excited to announce that Pulumi Identity and Access Management (IAM) is now available for self-hosted instances of Pulumi Cloud. This foundational security capability brings the same enterprise-grade access management we launched for Pulumi Cloud SaaS to organizations running Pulumi on their own infrastructure.

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Managing credentials in CI/CD pipelines has always involved tradeoffs. Long-lived access tokens are convenient but create security risks when they leak or fall into the wrong hands. Short-lived credentials are more secure but require additional tooling to obtain and manage. Today, we’re eliminating this tradeoff with native OIDC token exchange support in the Pulumi CLI.

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In 2026, several trends will dominate cloud computing, driving innovation, efficiency, and scalability. From Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to AI/ML, platform engineering to multi-cloud and hybrid strategies, and security practices, let’s explore the 10 biggest emerging trends.

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Achieving compliance with industry standards such as CIS, NIST, or PCI DSS is a foundational step for every organization. Yet for many teams, it’s often a manual, months-long process that involves interpreting controls, authoring custom policies, and validating configurations across multiple clouds. These challenges often slow progress toward a known and secure cloud state.

We’re changing that. To simplify this journey, Pulumi launched a new suite of pre-built compliance policy packs for CIS Controls v8.1, NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, and PCI DSS v4.0.

These packs are your accelerator for the “Get Clean” journey, allowing you to enforce critical security and compliance baselines across your cloud infrastructure in minutes, not months.

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Welcome to the third post in our IDP Best Practices series, where we explore how to implement policy as code with Pulumi CrossGuard to create deployment guardrails that make self-service infrastructure both powerful and safe.

Platform engineering presents a fundamental tension: we want to enable developer velocity while maintaining security and compliance. Every platform team faces the same question: how do you give teams the freedom to deploy infrastructure quickly without compromising on safety, security, or organizational standards? The answer isn’t to choose between speed and safety, but rather to embrace automated guardrails powered by policy as code that make both possible simultaneously.

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Every modern application depends on secrets to function: database passwords, API keys, certificates, and configuration values that enable secure communication between services. But here’s the challenge: as your infrastructure grows, managing these secrets becomes exponentially more complex.

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