Posts Tagged internal-developer-platform

Golden Paths in IDPs: A Complete Guide to Reusable Infrastructure with Pulumi Components and Templates

Golden Paths in IDPs: A Complete Guide to Reusable Infrastructure with Pulumi Components and Templates

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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How to Build an Internal Developer Platform: Strategy, Best Practices, and Self-Service Infrastructure

How to Build an Internal Developer Platform: Strategy, Best Practices, and Self-Service Infrastructure

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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Backstage vs Pulumi IDP: Why Infrastructure-First Wins!

Backstage vs Pulumi IDP: Why Infrastructure-First Wins!

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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Pulumi Private Registry: The Source of Truth for Golden Paths

Pulumi Private Registry: The Source of Truth for Golden Paths

As part of the Pulumi IDP announcement at PulumiUP, we introduced the Pulumi Private Registry. For years, we’ve worked with organizations that have built their own internal developer platforms on top of Pulumi. During that time, we identified what we believe is the best method for creating flexible golden paths – a bottom-up approach that utilizes a central source of truth to drive golden paths. Thanks to Pulumi Private Registry, this approach has never been simpler.

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