Best Practices

This section provides proven patterns and foundational frameworks that help you implement best practices with Pulumi IDP. These resources follow industry best practices and have been validated in production environments.

Core Concepts

Learn the foundational approach for building with Pulumi IDP:

• Four Factors: Templates, Components, Environments, and Policies

Patterns

Common architectural patterns and design approaches for organizing your infrastructure code and workflows:

• IDP Pattern: One ESC environment per service
• IDP Pattern: One ESC environment per team
• IDP Pattern: One ESC environment per lifecycle stage
• IDP Pattern: Composable environments
• IDP Pattern: Multiple workloads on shared infrastructure
• IDP Pattern: Policies as tests
• IDP Pattern: Components using other Components
• IDP Pattern: Validating Component Inputs using Policy functions
• IDP Pattern: Cost control using Components, Policies, and constrained inputs
• IDP Pattern: Security Updates using Components

Additional Resources

• Get Started with Pulumi IDP
• Private Registry