Pulumi & Kubernetes: Next steps

Congrats! By completing this guide you have successfully:

• Created a new Pulumi project.
• Deployed an NGINX web server to Kubernetes.
• Modified and redeployed the running program.
• Refactored the deployment into a reusable component.
• Destroyed the resources you’ve provisioned.

Below are some recommended next steps, depending on your learning style. Also be sure to join the Community Slack to meet fellow IaC practitioners.

Try Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration)

Pulumi ESC is a centralized secrets management and orchestration service. It introduces the concepts of environments — managed collections of static and dynamic settings that you can use to configure any project, stack, application, or service, including with short-lived cloud credentials through OpenID Connect.

With Pulumi ESC you can:

• Stop secret sprawl. Pull and sync configuration and secrets with any secrets store – including HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, 1Password, and more – and consume in any application, tool, or CI/CD platform.
• Trust (and prove) your secrets are secure. Every environment can be locked down with role-based access controls (RBAC) and versioned with all changes fully logged for auditing.
• Ditch .env files. No more storing secrets in plaintext on dev computers. Developers can access secrets via CLI, API, Kubernetes operator, the Pulumi Cloud UI, and in-code with Typescript/Javascript, Python, and Go SDKs.

Learn Pulumi

Dive into Learn Pulumi for a comprehensive walkthrough of key Pulumi concepts in the context of a real-life application.

Launch a new project with a template

Provision a managed Kubernetes cluster on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, or browse the full Kubernetes cluster template collection.

Video tutorial

Take a deeper look at Pulumi with Kubernetes with this video tutorial.

Dive into the docs

Read more about Pulumi’s architecture and foundational concepts in depth, including projects, stacks, configuration, secrets, resources, state, and more.

Blog posts

Read through the latest blog posts about using Pulumi with Kubernetes.