Developers are losing days every month to infrastructure bottlenecks, compliance hurdles, and inconsistent environments. Platform engineering promised to fix that, yet too many platforms fail before they deliver real impact.
In this comparison of Backstage vs Pulumi IDP, we’ll explore why choosing the right architectural approach matters more than the tool itself.
Pulumi AWS provider 7.0 is here with powerful new capabilities that simplify and scale infrastructure as code on AWS. As the most widely used provider in the Pulumi ecosystem, it offers access to the full surface area of the upstream Terraform AWS Provider in Pulumi projects in all supported languages, like TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, and YAML.
The 7.0 release brings fixes and improvements to the provider, including several breaking changes as part of the major version release.
Did you know that 80% of unplanned outages aren’t caused by hardware failures or cyberattacks, but by the very changes we make to improve our systems?
Pulumi ESC already enables safer change management with our innovative versioning capability which allows users to track and roll back environment revisions.
Building on this foundation, we’re excited to announce the release of Approvals in Pulumi ESC—a new feature that enables organizations to bring governance and oversight directly into their environment configuration workflows.
With Approvals, teams can require explicit review and sign-off before applying changes to ESC-managed environments, bringing the same rigor to configuration as they already have with infrastructure-as-code and application development.
It’s funny how technology has a way of sneaking back into your life just when you think you’ve moved on for good. Jenkins and I have quite the history. Think of it as that reliable but slightly temperamental friend from your college days who you haven’t seen in years.
Today, we are announcing a new addition that allows Pulumi users to use Bun as their package manager, offering an alternative to npm, Yarn, or pnpm. Bun, a recently released JavaScript runtime, bundler, transpiler, and package manager, provides a faster way to manage Pulumi project dependencies.
We’re excited to introduce Google Cloud support to Insights Account Discovery. This new capability expands Pulumi’s resource discovery to help you uncover infrastructure in Google Cloud, regardless of how those resources are managed. With full visibility into all of your cloud resources, you can monitor, search, and manage your environments more effectively.
Every modern application depends on secrets to function: database passwords, API keys, certificates, and configuration values that enable secure communication between services. But here’s the challenge: as your infrastructure grows, managing these secrets becomes exponentially more complex.
Pulumi programs are declarative, allowing you to specify the desired state of your infrastructure while Pulumi figures out the rest. But what about the times where you want to be more involved in what Pulumi is doing? Resource hooks are one of our most requested features, and from Pulumi 3.182.0 we’re excited to announce that you’ll be able to use them to run arbitrary code at any point in Pulumi’s resource lifecycle!
We are excited to announce support for Doppler within Pulumi ESC! Pulumi ESC centralizes secrets and configuration management, providing a unified source of truth across your environments. With the addition of Doppler, a popular secrets management platform, ESC further extends its ecosystem, enabling seamless and secure access to secrets stored across diverse systems.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has evolved beyond simple automation into a fundamental shift toward applying software engineering practices to infrastructure management. In 2025, leading organizations aren’t just provisioning infrastructure—they’re treating it as software, complete with testing, version control, code reviews, and continuous integration.
