IDP Patterns

This section provides proven patterns that help you implement best practices solutions with Pulumi IDP. Each pattern includes a description, use cases, anti-patterns, and related patterns to help you choose the right approach for your specific needs.

Environment Patterns

• 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

Application Patterns

• IDP Pattern: Multiple workloads on shared infrastructure

Governance Patterns

• IDP Pattern: Policies as tests
• IDP Pattern: Validating Component Inputs using Policy functions
• IDP Pattern: Cost control using Components, Policies, and constrained inputs

Component Patterns

• IDP Pattern: Components using other Components
• IDP Pattern: Security Updates using Components

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• Best Practices
• Pulumi IDP Concepts