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The IDE is dying, and so is tool calling. OpenAI is not going to win. And next year, you’re going to be shipping code that you’ve never reviewed before, even as an experienced engineer.

These are bold claims, but the way we use AI in 2026 for coding and agents is going to look completely different. In this post, I want to cover my predictions and why they matter right now for DevOps engineers. Some of these are definitely hot takes, but that’s what makes this conversation worth having.

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Ask a generic LLM to “fix my broken deployment,” and you’ll get generic advice. Ask Pulumi Neo the same question, and you’ll get a fix plan grounded in your actual infrastructure state.

The difference isn’t about better prompts or newer models. It’s about what the AI actually knows. Generic LLMs have been trained on the internet. Neo has been trained on your infrastructure.

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Welcome to the second post in our IDP Best Practices series. In this article, we explore how to create golden paths, pre-architected, reusable infrastructure patterns that help standardize and accelerate cloud development.

Modern cloud platforms offer endless options, over 200 AWS services, sprawling Azure catalogs, and countless DevOps tools. The result? Developers face decision fatigue and inconsistent implementations. Golden paths solve this by providing ready-to-use, production-grade infrastructure that encodes your organization’s best practices, security policies, and operational standards.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to build golden paths for your Internal Developer Platform using two core Pulumi constructs: Components, reusable infrastructure building blocks, and Templates, predefined, deployable patterns. You’ll see how to create infrastructure abstractions that are written once, shared across teams, and consumed in any language, turning weeks of setup into minutes of developer-ready infrastructure.

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Welcome to the first post in our IDP Best Practices series. In this guide, we’ll walk through the strategic foundations for designing an Internal Developer Platform that empowers developers without sacrificing governance, security, or operational control.

At Pulumi, we’ve worked with hundreds of teams facing the same core challenge: How do you give developers the infrastructure access they need, while maintaining the governance and security your organization requires?

That tension is at the heart of every IDP conversation. Teams want to move faster and innovate, but also need to stay compliant, control costs, and maintain operational stability.

The good news? You can do both, with a clear strategy and the right approach. This series shares proven best practices for designing, building, and scaling IDPs using Pulumi.

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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.

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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.

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We are excited to announce the Pulumi Puluminaries 2.0 Program. This is a fresh and revitalized way to celebrate and support Pulumi’s most passionate community members. Pulumi Puluminaries are individuals who demonstrate leadership in the Pulumi ecosystem by sharing best practices, creating valuable content, and helping fellow practitioners succeed.

Before we dive into what is new, we want to recognize and applaud the incredible achievements of our existing Pulumi Puluminaries. You can check out the great folks currently making a difference in our community on the Pulumi Puluminaries page. Their hard work and dedication have laid a strong foundation for what is next.

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This weekend, my “for you” page on all of my social media accounts was filled with only one thing: DeepSeek. DeepSeek really managed to shake up the AI community with a series of very strong language models like DeepSeek R1.

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Kubernetes has undeniably transformed the way we build, ship, and run applications. But let’s be honest, getting started with Kubernetes can feel like climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops.

As a cloud-native citizen and Kubernetes enthusiast, I’ve learned the hard way that there are a bunch of “wish I had known that earlier” best practices. They could have saved me time, money, and headaches.

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Welcome to the second blog post of the Pulumi ESC and Kubernetes secrets series. If you haven’t had the chance to read the first blog post, go ahead and read it here.

In the previous blog post, we have learned how to manage secrets with Pulumi ESC and the External Secrets Operator. While the External Secrets Operator is a great tool to manage secrets in a cloud-native way, it still creates Kubernetes secrets in the cluster. Depending on your security requirements, you might want to avoid the use of Kubernetes secrets in your cluster at all. This is the point where you hit the limits of the External Secrets Operator.

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