When your company moved to the cloud, it was supposed to supercharge innovation while slashing costs. Unlimited scalability and agility were within reach. But for many, that potential remains frustratingly untapped.
Instead of accelerating development, managing infrastructure has become a bottleneck. Your DevOps and platform engineering teams are mired in:
- Clunky, manual processes - spinning up a simple test environment takes days
- Painfully slow rollouts - deploying updates across regions drags on for weeks
- Overwhelming complexity - the combinations of cloud services seem infinite
There has to be a better way to truly harness the cloud and turn it into your secret weapon. That's where Pulumi comes in.
Pulumi: The 10x Better Approach to Infrastructure as Code
Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that enables you to provision and manage your cloud with the same languages and tools you use to build applications. This unlocks powerful benefits:
Familiar languages and tools: Use Python, TypeScript, Go, or any language you love. Tap into AI copilots, IDEs, testing frameworks, and CI/CD.
Built for modern architectures: Easily automate and scale microservices, containers, serverless, and more. Apply software engineering to tame the complexity.
AI-powered user experience: Semantic understanding of your cloud combined with powerful language models provides unique insights and automations.
Pulumi takes a fundamentally different approach that delivers 10x better productivity and time-to-value compared to other IaC tools. But what does that mean for you?
Compelling Reasons to Make the Switch
Adopting Pulumi, trusted by hundreds of thousands of developers, can be game-changing:
- Accelerate deployments. Provision environments in minutes instead of days. Roll out updates in hours instead of weeks. Deliver value faster.
- Increase productivity. Use best-in-class languages and tooling to manage infrastructure. No more fighting clunky domain-specific languages.
- Automate at infinite scale. Use software engineering to tame the mind-boggling combinations of cloud services. 10x your infrastructure-to-engineer ratio.
- Open source stability. Avoid the uncertainty of tools altering licenses and tying open source to commercial services. Get dependable open source.
Pulumi customers routinely see their productivity double, provisioning times compress 99%, and infrastructure management accelerate 10x. But Pulumi shines for specific use cases too.
Why Pulumi for Internal Developer Platforms?
Building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to empower your developers requires:
- Developer Control Plane - Curated experiences and self-service interfaces
- Integration & Delivery - Automation to provision, test, and deploy all aspects of infrastructure
- Monitoring & Logging - Observability to maintain operational control and optimize costs
- Security & Identity - Guardrails to enforce policies and control access
- Diverse Resources - Support for Kubernetes, serverless, AI/ML, hybrid cloud, and more
Pulumi provides the building blocks for each layer, enabling you to craft an IDP that bridges the gap between your developers and the cloud. Abstract away complexity while maintaining security and compliance.
Why Pulumi for AI Workloads?
Deploying AI applications requires provisioning and gluing together many layers:
- Model training infrastructure
- Data transformation pipelines
- Backend services
- Web frontends
Pulumi allows you to define your entire AI stack, from machine learning frameworks down to cloud services, as a simple Python library. Go from local development to cloud production environments with ease.
Why Pulumi Over Alternatives?
There are many infrastructure tools out there, but Pulumi delivers an unmatched combination of productivity and power:
Pulumi vs Clickops
Manually provisioning prod infra = bad idea. No repeatability or consistency. Errors lead to downtime or worse. Automate with IaC.
Pulumi vs Terraform
Both are IaC, but Pulumi enables far greater productivity, scalability, and collaboration:
- Use real languages + tools, not proprietary DSLs
- Apply software engineering to tame complexity
- Empower self-service with IaC building blocks
Pulumi vs AWS CDK
Both use code for IaC, but Pulumi provides:
- Multi-cloud with no lock-in, not just AWS
- Direct execution, not transpiling to CloudFormation
- Versatile testing, including fast in-memory mocking
Pulumi vs IDP Services
3rd party IDPs provide simple portals but lack Pulumi's:
- Infrastructure as code foundation
- Powerful customization through software engineering
- Enterprise-grade secrets management and policy enforcement
Making the Switch is Easy
Adopting Pulumi doesn't have to be daunting. We've helped thousands of customers do it:
- Ask questions on our Community Slack
- Use our self-serve tools to import existing infrastructure
- Get expert help from our team to plan and execute your migration
The cloud's promise is within your grasp. You just need the right tools to seize it.
Pulumi can be the bridge between your teams and the cloud. The key to turning infrastructure from a bottleneck into a launchpad.
So why wait? Join the thousands of companies achieving 10x greater velocity in shipping products.
Header image credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
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