From AI Prompt to Cloud Infrastructure in 30 Seconds

Luke Hoban Luke Hoban Aaron Friel Aaron Friel
From AI Prompt to Cloud Infrastructure in 30 Seconds

Earlier this year we launched Pulumi AI, a purpose-built AI assistant that can create Infrastructure as Code (IaC) from natural language prompts using Pulumi. Since launch, we’ve seen incredible adoption of Pulumi AI, with over 200,000 questions asked so far and growing fast. Pulumi AI is popular with users new to Pulumi and/or new to the Cloud, but also heavily used by many of the most advanced IaC users and organizations to quickly discover solutions to new problems they need to solve. Over the last few months, we’ve driven major improvements to Pulumi AI through the recently launched Pulumi AI Answers pages with thousands of AI generated answers to common questions, improvements to code generation correctness and performance, and expansion of the languages supported by Pulumi AI.

Today, we are taking the next big step, introducing support for deploying cloud infrastructure directly from Pulumi AI. Going from idea to running cloud infrastructure is just a natural language prompt away!

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Introducing the Pulumi Cloud Team Edition Cost Calculator

Meagan Cojocar Meagan Cojocar
Introducing the Pulumi Cloud Team Edition Cost Calculator

Pulumi Cloud pricing is straightforward- a charge per resource hour for every resource managed by Pulumi Cloud and a charge for every deployment minute (only applicable if using Pulumi Deployments). However, when prospective customers first look at Pulumi Cloud costs it can be overwhelming to determine what your workload will look like and then do the math.

Today we are making available a simple tool for estimating your cost on the Team Edition of Pulumi Cloud to get prospective customers to the information as quickly as possible.

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Pulumi Cloud Gets Full Historical Views of Resources and Stack Outputs

Meagan Cojocar Meagan Cojocar Komal Ali Komal Ali
Pulumi Cloud Gets Full Historical Views of Resources and Stack Outputs

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing developers and infrastructure teams with powerful tools, we’re thrilled to introduce the latest enhancement to Pulumi Cloud’s stack update pages. We have shipped an improvement to Pulumi Cloud stack update pages where all update pages now show the resources in the stack at that time and the stack outputs going back since your first update on the stack.

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Scaling Applications Across Multiple Regions

Adora Nwodo Adora Nwodo
Scaling Applications Across Multiple Regions

As a team building a distributed cloud service that will be used by different people around the world, you will need strategies to cater to users globally, ensuring uninterrupted service even in the face of disruptions. Have you ever wondered how businesses operate and deliver high-level performance across different regions? Well, that is the result of scaling applications across multiple regions — in a bid to ensure constant access and flexibility, organizations distribute their applications and databases across various geographic regions so that if one part faces issues, the service remains available elsewhere.

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10X Your Storage Performance with Amazon S3 Express One Zone and Infrastructure as Code

Joe Duffy Joe Duffy
10X Your Storage Performance with Amazon S3 Express One Zone and Infrastructure as Code

At AWS re:Invent 2023, AWS announced the new Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class. This new service provides incredible performance by collocating your S3 buckets closer to the workloads that use the data. Compared to the S3 Standard storage class, the Express One Zone storage class is up to 10X faster, handles 100,000s of requests per second, offers single-digit millisecond latency, and can reduce request costs by 50%. This can be extremely beneficial for data-intensive workloads such as AI/ML, media, finance, realtime, and high-performance computing scenarios. This blog post shows how to get started with Amazon S3 Express One Zone using Pulumi infrastructure as code.

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Pulumi Cloud Adds Multi-factor Authentication

Meagan Cojocar Meagan Cojocar
Pulumi Cloud Adds Multi-factor Authentication

We are excited to announce that all users of Pulumi Cloud can now secure their account with multi-factor authentication (MFA). By requiring an additional verification step during the login process, MFA shields against unauthorized access, reducing the risk of breaches. This feature aligns with our commitment to providing robust security measures for our users. As an organization administrator, you can further protect your organization by having your members enable MFA.

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Secure your Kubernetes toolchain with Pulumi ESC and OIDC

Levi Blackstone Levi Blackstone Eron Wright Eron Wright
Secure your Kubernetes toolchain with Pulumi ESC and OIDC

Keeping long-lived kubeconfig around on disk is insecure and error-prone. You need a secure workflow that removes tedium. With Pulumi and ESC, we provide an automated workflow that generates a kubeconfig on-the-fly for every command using short-term credentials issued via OIDC. This makes it easy for your team to connect to a given Kubernetes environment, and it works well with Kubernetes tools such as kubectl and the Pulumi Kubernetes provider. Let’s take a look.

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Going Beyond With Advanced Infrastructure as Code Use Cases

Joe Duffy Joe Duffy
Going Beyond With Advanced Infrastructure as Code Use Cases

This is the third of a three-part series originally published on The New Stack. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Engineers who modernize their Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi get two classes of benefits: Infrastructure as Code to develop cloud infrastructure with code. Pulumi Cloud, which tames cloud infrastructure management at scale. We’ve covered a fair bit of the first above, but have yet to scratch the surface for the second.

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