Get Started with Discovery
Discovery is the resource-scanning feature of Pulumi Insights, an intelligent infrastructure management service that helps you discover, understand, manage, and improve your cloud infrastructure. It improves security, compliance, and efficiency through AI-powered asset and compliance management.
Discovery and Resource Explorer give you the tools to:
Discover: Scan and sync all your cloud infrastructure – including resources provisioned manually or through other tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes and ARM – to bring everything under a single pane of glass. Gain complete visibility across clouds, regions, and accounts.
Understand: Analyze your cloud infrastructure with powerful search and AI-driven insights. Use natural language queries to find resources, identify underutilized or untagged assets, and uncover trends that help you align with business goals.
Manage: Group related resources into logical units that reflect your business priorities. Use these groupings to identify policy violations, enforce tagging standards, and ensure compliance across your organization.
Improve: Optimize your cloud infrastructure with actionable recommendations. Detect and remediate security violations, reduce costs by identifying inefficient resources, and enforce compliance policies.
For an overview of how Discovery works, check out the following 5-min video:
This guide will take you through the following steps to get started with Discovery and Resource Explorer:
- Confirm the prerequisites for connecting your cloud accounts.
- Connect a cloud account and run your first discovery scan.
- Manage your accounts and launch scans on demand.
- Use Resource Explorer to understand your infrastructure, and ask natural language questions using Pulumi Neo.
- Apply policies to your discovered resources.