PulumiWhat is Pulumi?
Pulumi is a cloud development platform that makes creating cloud programs easy and productive. Skip the YAML and just write code. Pulumi is multi-language, multi-cloud and fully extensible in both its engine and ecosystem of packages.
Pulumi is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Containers - Deploy a Docker container to production in 5 minutes using your favorite orchestrator.Serverless - Stand up a serverless API or event handler in 5 minutes using a real lambda in code.Infrastructure - Manage cloud infrastructure or hosted services using infrastructure as code.CoLaDa - Embrace containers, lambdas, and data, using a modern, multi-cloud framework.
Pulumi Pros & Cons
Pros of Pulumi
- ✓Infrastructure as code with less pain
- ✓Best-in-class kubernetes support
- ✓Can use many languages
- ✓Simple
- ✓Can be self-hosted
- ✓Great CLI
- ✓Multi-cloud
- ✓Built-in secret management
Cons of Pulumi
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Pulumi Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pulumi?
AWS CloudFormation
You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work.
Packer
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.
AWS Cloud Development Kit
It is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. It uses the familiarity and expressive power of programming languages for modeling your applications. It provides you with high-level components that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud applications without needing to be an expert.
