Posts Tagged automation-api

Build Self-Service Cloud Infrastructure with Automation API

Build Self-Service Cloud Infrastructure with Automation API

If you could create infrastructure without using a cloud provider’s console, a CLI, or a templating engine, what would you build? Pulumi’s Automation API lets you create declarative infrastructure defined by your best practices and expose it behind a REST, gRPC, or custom API.

So just what is Automation API? Think of it as Pulumi’s infrastructure as code engine as an SDK. Instead of writing code and using the CLI to declare infrastructure, you can directly tell the engine to build your infrastructure. This means that you’re using the same declarative IaC tooling with the predictability, robustness, safety, and desired state management, except it has a new programmatic surface area. Imagine building an application that creates infrastructure via a REST interface. Get ready, because that’s what we’re going to do.

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The Pulumi Automation API - The Next Quantum Leap in IaC

The Pulumi Automation API - The Next Quantum Leap in IaC

Today’s Infrastructure as Code platforms let organizations build rich, reliable, and complex cloud-based applications and architectures. But as teams move to modern cloud technologies, they continue to search for ways to drive increased software-driven automation. Although modern Infrastructure as Code tools bring key software engineering benefits to cloud engineering, they remain focused on human-driven workflows. For example, a person running pulumi up at their terminal or wiring the Pulumi CLI into their CI/CD system.

To scale up how we deploy and manage cloud infrastructure and ultimately unlock the cloud’s value and agility, we believe it will be critical to build software systems around our Infrastructure as Code platforms - systems that scale with software, not just humans.

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