Beyond the cluster: Orchestrating Kubernetes and everything around it with Pulumi

Your platform isn’t just Kubernetes. It’s the cluster, workloads, databases, networks, and cloud services that live outside it, and they all need to change safely over time. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll build a multi-tier application with a frontend in Kubernetes and a managed database outside the cluster, connected with stack references. We’ll upgrade a cluster with a one-line change and a preview gate, let an AI agent propose infrastructure changes that a human approves, and then run the same programs from inside the cluster using the Pulumi Kubernetes Operator, triggered by a merge to main. You’ll leave with a working pattern for orchestrating hybrid infrastructure, whether your team lives in GitOps, CI/CD, or somewhere in between.