Pulumi Fundamentals
In this tutorial, you’ll learn about cloud computing with Pulumi by building, configuring, and deploying a real-world, modern application with Docker. You’ll create a front-end interface, a back-end service, and a database to deploy a web application called the Pulumipus Boba Tea Shop. Along the way, you’ll learn more about how Pulumi works.
For this tutorial, you’ll use Docker to learn the basics of deploying with Pulumi. You’ll create a Pulumi Project, build Docker images, and configure and provision containers with those images, all with Pulumi.
The sample app we’ll be building, the Pulumipus Boba Tea Shop, is a progressive web application (PWA) built with MongoDB, ExpressJS, React, and Node.js (the MERN stack). It’s a common stack used in e-commerce applications, adapted from this repository.
- Creating Pulumi projects
- Configuring, provisioning, and destroying infrastructure
- Managing Docker images, containers, and services with Pulumi
- The Pulumi CLI
- A Pulumi Cloud account and an access token
- Familiarity with JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
- A Docker service installed and running locally
Topics
This tutorial has 3 topics and takes about 25 minutes to complete.- 15 min
Creating Pulumi Projects
To get started, create your first Pulumi project using the CLI. - 210 min
Creating Docker Images
Use Pulumi and the Docker provider to build Docker images locally. - 310 min
Configuring and Provisioning Containers
Configure and provision your first containers locally with Pulumi.