Best Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools for 2026
Compare the best infrastructure as code tools of 2026: Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Bicep, Crossplane, and Pulumi, side by side.

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Compare the best infrastructure as code tools of 2026: Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Bicep, Crossplane, and Pulumi, side by side.

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Learn how to test infrastructure as code with Pulumi—unit tests, integration tests, and policy checks in Python, TypeScript, Go, C#, and Java.
Alex Leventer

A zero-touch Ollama GPU inference server on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud as one Pulumi program, with OIDC credentials from Pulumi ESC and no static keys.
Engin Diri

Align your AWS infrastructure to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 with a pre-built Pulumi policy pack of 238 ready-to-run security policies.
Dan Biwer

Pulumi ESC secret rotation webhooks notify your team the moment a rotation happens. Refresh dependent services immediately!
Sean Yeh

Provision a governed Databricks workspace baseline with Pulumi, including cluster policies, notebooks, jobs, and promotion workflows.
Pablo Seibelt

Deploy a self-hosted Hermes agent as one Pulumi program across Render, Modal, and Tailscale — a code-executing AI agent with nothing on the public internet.
Engin Diri

Build a Cloudflare-first edge baseline with Pulumi, including DNS, WAF rules, Workers, Zero Trust Access policies, and repeatable validation.
Pablo Seibelt

Neo code reviews analyze pull requests against what Pulumi Cloud knows about your running infrastructure and leave feedback right in the PR.
Pulumi Neo Team

Deploy an AKS cluster with Pulumi C#. Six Kubernetes recommendations from a live workshop, including the Docker Hub rate limit that hit mid-demo.
Adam Gordon Bell

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