Over the holidays we have been releasing new features and improvements. Read on to learn about what’s new in this release!
As a reader of this blog, you’ve probably heard of the Pulumi Service, the default state-management backend of the Pulumi CLI, and if that’s the case, there’s a good chance you’ve also heard of many of its key features. But did you know we’re adding new features to the Service all the time—some of which are incredibly easy to miss? In this post, we’ll highlight a few of those lesser-known features that we think make it even easier to manage your infrastructure with Pulumi.
As part of our hackathon near the end of last year, we decided to explore solutions to a common problem when people are using Pulumi for their systems. A question that’s been asked in a few different forms is how to resolve circular dependencies between resources in a Pulumi program. A simple example of this idea is a modern web application with a static front-end and an API, where the front-end needs to know the URL of the API to be able to call it and the API needs to know the source domain of the front-end to allow it access via CORS.
With the holiday season approaching, we’ve been focused on tidying up our products, delivering asks we’ve heard from you in GitHub and at conferences, and looking ahead to 2022! Read on to learn about what’s new this release:
It’s been another exciting few weeks here at Pulumi! We’ve caught our breath from Cloud Engineering Summit (don’t forget to check out the talks if you haven’t yet!) and we’re back to adding new value and highly-requested fixes across the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Platform. Read on to learn about new providers, new enhancements to the core Pulumi experience, and more!
Pulumi 3.17.1 makes it easier to compose function calls and resources.
In practice you often need to call a function with a resource output.
Previous versions of Pulumi required an apply to do this, which
was unfortunate:
new Pulumi users would get stuck and ask for help as the solution was not obvious
experienced users found the code unpleasant, upvoting the relevant GitHub Issue
With Pulumi 3.17.1 you can now call functions directly with resource
outputs without an extra apply. Every function now has an additional
Output form that accepts Input-typed arguments and returns an
Output-wrapped result.
For a quick example, here is how you can call
aws.ecr.getCredentials
with a registryId of type Output<string>:
const registryId: Output<string> = ...
getCredentialsOutput({registryId: registryId}): Output<GetCredentialsResult>
registry_id: Output[str] = ...
get_credentials_output(registry_id=registryId): Output[GetCredentialsResult]
var registryId StringOutput
var result GetCredentialsResultOutput
result = GetCredentialsOutput(ctx, GetCredentialsOutputArgs{
RegistryId: result
})
Output<string> registryId;
GetCredentials.Invoke(new GetCredentialsInvokeArgs
{
RegistryId = registryId
});
It’s been an incredibly busy few weeks at Pulumi. We’ve met thousands of you at our second annual Cloud Engineering Summit, shipped major new releases like Pulumi Registry and Pulumi Kubernetes Operator 1.0 and continued to innovate on and improve the entire Pulumi Cloud Engineering Platform. Get caught up on Cloud Engineering Summit to learn what’s coming in cloud engineering, or read on for this month’s news.
Pulumi offers the most complete infrastructure as code platform for building, deploying, and managing modern cloud infrastructure and applications. When you use Pulumi, a vast library of cloud resources—from compute, storage, and other cloud infrastructure to databases to identity providers to monitoring systems—is at your fingertips. As the Pulumi community has grown, we’ve heard from many of you that we needed a central hub where you could find all of those resources. We’ve also heard from Pulumi partners that they wanted a great place to showcase their integrations with Pulumi so that their customers can more easily learn how to use Pulumi to deploy and manage their products.
Today, we’re excited to launch Pulumi Registry, the one place to discover and share everything you can achieve using Pulumi. Pulumi Registry is a searchable collection of Pulumi Packages published by Pulumi and our partners. With Pulumi Registry, you can easily find the package with the resources you need, install that package directly into your project, and start building. You can choose from Providers that give you full access to everything a cloud provider has to offer, or choose a Component that gets you started quickly with best practices and sensible defaults baked in. All Pulumi Packages are available in all Pulumi languages, so you can build your infrastructure using C#, Go, Python, and TypeScript/JavaScript. You’ll also find all of the documentation you need to succeed: from detailed API reference to how-to guides with source code for specific use cases.
It’s been a busy few weeks at Pulumi, including for some of our community contributors! Read on to see what’s new.
It’s been a busy few weeks at Pulumi, including for some of our community contributors! Read on to see what’s new.