Pulumi

Open Source Infrastructure as Code

5.0•21 reviews•

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Open Source Infrastructure as Code

5.0•21 reviews•

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Pulumi is a open-source cloud development platform: a pure code (JS, TS, Python, and Go) framework for building and deploying serverless, containers, data, infrastructure to any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), and Kubernetes.

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The community submitted 21 reviews to tell us what they like about Pulumi, what Pulumi can do better, and more.

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Reviewers consistently praise Pulumi for making infrastructure work feel more natural to developers: the biggest theme is using familiar languages instead of YAML or a DSL, which they say lowers the learning curve, improves maintainability, and makes refactoring, testing, and modular reuse easier. Users also highlight strong multi-cloud and provider coverage, support for complex cross-account or multi-environment setups, and useful features like previews, Automation API, secrets handling, and shared components. Feedback here is overwhelmingly positive, with little concrete criticism in the reviews provided.

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We've used Pulumi as our IaC tool of choice for several years. The programmatic way you can interact with your infrastructure provides a powerful interface for modularizing infrastructure components. This allows our organization to develop standardized shared libraries in Python that other stacks can import and use to deploy secure, repeatable, and scalable infrastructure without needing to re-invent the wheel each time or rely on copying and pasting long code segments between projects. This in turn reduces errors and time spent focused on resolving security vulnerabilities. We're able to fix it once, centrally, and then pulumi up our dependent stacks in order to resolve the security issues.

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Pulumi has been an invaluable tool for us in maintaining our cloud infrastructure across multiple environments using Python. Its ease of use and declarative approach have significantly streamlined our deployment and management processes. With Pulumi, we were able to define our infrastructure as code, making it version-controlled, easily reproducible, and enabling collaborative development. The ability to leverage Python, a widely adopted language, allowed us to leverage our existing knowledge and skills while benefiting from Pulumi's powerful features. Whether it was provisioning resources, managing configurations, or orchestrating complex deployments, Pulumi provided us with a comprehensive solution that simplified our infrastructure management and enhanced our team's productivity. Overall, Pulumi has been a game-changer for us, empowering us to efficiently maintain our cloud infrastructure across multiple environments.

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I've been doing overall automation and continuous deployment for over a decade, but it wasn't until I discovered Pulumi that I went all-in for the infrastructure part. As a developer I prefer to use code when I can compared to yaml or something else. The reason I prefer it is because it does give me more trust, if you are using a strongly typed version of pulumi like typescript, and faster feedback since you get answers back directly during compilation. Having things in code also makes it possible to run "patch jobs" for resources in process instead of having to run that code outside of the actual provisioning. This is great for the rare occasions when there might be a missing option in the SDK, which have happened one time over three years with the Azure AD provider. I would argue that most companies do need a tool like pulumi, since the pure cloud tools are limited to just that cloud provider. If you are a larger company you also want to automate things like kubernetes, GitHub, Opsgenie and other services out there and Pulumi has support for a lot of them. Pulumi automation is also another feature that we have used to build a self-service application where anyone can "order" different resources through a simple UI and then the application would create them using Pulumi in a compliant manner. Lastly I would also like to highlight how Pulumi deals with configuration and secrets. How you both store secure configuration in Pulumi and also share outputs between different deployments in Pulumi is a killer feature that have simplified a lot of work for us. I often use Pulumi just to deal with configuration for smaller things where I'm testing things out since it is much more secure than copying a file around. Storing secrets in the Pulumi configuration also makes it very easy to get new user app running by creating a small script that reads the config and sets appropriate environment variables to get going. If there is one infra structure as code tool I would recommend it is Pulumi!

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Pulumi is a great product overall. It offers a wide range of cool features that make infrastructure-as-code (IaC) development easier and more efficient. One of the strongest aspects of Pulumi is its support for native programming languages like Python, Node, Jave, Yaml Go, .net. This allows developers to leverage their existing skills and use familiar tools to define and manage infrastructure resources. What I really appreciate about Pulumi is that you don't have to be a full-time developer to understand and work with it. As someone from a systems engineering background, I found it straightforward to pick up and start using as my preferred IaC platform. Pulumi's documentation and community resources are also very helpful. They provide clear and concise guidance, making it easier to get started and troubleshoot any issues that may arise. One notable advantage of Pulumi is its ability to simplify the creation of cross-account and cross-region resources within a single stack. This means you can define and manage resources that span multiple AWS accounts or different regions without the need for complex configuration or external tools like Terraform and Terragrunt. Overall, I have had a positive experience with Pulumi and it has become my go-to choice for infrastructure provisioning and management. Its support for multiple programming languages, ease of use, and strong feature set make it a powerful tool for anyone involved in IaC development.

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Prior to Pulumi, my only experience with IaC was Terraform (usually combined with Ansible). This was a great progression: all the good bits of Terraform have been adopted or improved on by the Pulumi team, and all the weak bits have been dropped. Pulumi is so easy to pick up that I could learn a new language (Typescript, in my case), new AWS services _and_ Pulumi all together, faster than I learned Terraform (by itself) a couple of years earlier. And refactoring my old Pulumi code, to resolve all the beginner mistakes I made initially, is _so_ easy; when I look at my old Terraform code these days, I can't even read it any more, it's so different from any other sort of coding. Pulumi brings maintainability and testability to an area of development that has lived without these things for too long. And it has done it so successfully that the tools it used to compete against have now had to pivot in order to compete against Pulumi! (Yes CDK, I'm looking at you.)

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Many things to love about Pulumi but the main ones for me are the developer experience (developing using programming languages and tools that you already know and are productive with is a must) and the native providers for major cloud providers (latest services and features available as soon as they are released). It seems that Pulumi is currently leading the innovation in the IaC field with things like Automation API, AI, ... can't wait to see what is coming next.

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Few things make IaC more accessible than being able to write it in the language that you know and love, using the patterns and IDE that you're already accustomed to. Perhaps even cooler than that though, Pulumi's Automation API breaks away from the traditional CICD paradigm by handing you all of the programmatic firepower to manage complex deployments without needing to wrestle with so much scripting.

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I've been using Pulumi for a while now, and I can't help but be amazed at how it has transformed my infrastructure deployment and management workflows. Unlike other IaC tools that rely on domain-specific languages, Pulumi leverages real programming constructs. This makes it feel more natural for developers and reduces the learning curve

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We are avid users of Pulumi at VirtusLab because it's the first devops tool that really gives the steering wheel back into the hands of developers. It allows us to take ownership of critical parts of systems we build and helps us to deliver value fast and correctly. A must use for any large infrastructural project. Highly recommended.

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Pulumi is my favourite infrastructure as code tool. The ability to write IaC using real programming languages is a game changer and adds so much flexibility to how I deploy infrastructure. Things like the automation API and Pulumi deployments add even more great functionality that makes it my go-to language.

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Pulumi

Open Source Infrastructure as Code

Open Source Infrastructure as Code

Pulumi Reviews

The community submitted 21 reviews to tell us what they like about Pulumi, what Pulumi can do better, and more.

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