Building and maintaining reusable infrastructure has always been about more than just writing good code. It’s about making that code discoverable, understandable, and easy to adopt across your organization. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature that removes significant friction from sharing and consuming infrastructure components: automatic multi-language API documentation in Pulumi Private Registry.
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.
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.
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.
In previous articles in this series, we’ve explored how platform engineering transforms infrastructure chaos into consistent provisioning, empowers engineering teams through self-service infrastructure, optimizes workflows, embeds security directly into your platform, and provides observability as a superpower. Each pillar builds upon the previous ones, creating a cohesive foundation that accelerates innovation and productivity.
But as your platform scales, new challenges inevitably emerge. You’ve empowered engineering teams with self-service infrastructure, streamlined workflows, and embedded security directly into your platform. But as your platform scales, new challenges emerge: How do you ensure consistency, compliance, and cost control without slowing your teams down?
Engineering teams drown in observability tool sprawl, alert fatigue, and reactive debugging that turns 3AM incidents into hours-long fire drills. Learn how embedding observability into your platform with centralized service dashboards, actionable alerts, and built-in instrumentation transforms reactive firefighting into proactive innovation, enabling teams to resolve major incidents in minutes instead of hours.
SEITENBAU GmbH faced a unique challenge - building a platform for 20+ independent projects, each with different tech stacks, deployment targets, and operational models. Instead of forcing standardization, they built an infrastructure buffet using Pulumi.
Platform engineering has emerged as a hot area, but is it truly an evolutionary step toward a greater way of developing and operating software? Or is it merely a fad and a rebranding of existing ideas?
In previous articles, we looked at how platform engineering fixes infrastructure chaos, enables self-service, and improves developer workflows. These pillars work together to boost both developer productivity and organizational speed.
But there’s still one critical element that can make or break all this progress: security.
Traditional security efforts — even “shift-left” initiatives — often create friction instead of clearing the way for innovation. Embedding security directly into your platform changes that. By weaving in policy-as-code, centralized secrets management, and identity-based authentication, you turn security from a blocker into an enabler. And with the right metrics, you can measure how well your platform balances protection and speed.
Pulumi Cloud empowers engineers to automate, secure, and manage modern infrastructure platforms.
Many companies are building internal developer platforms or modern infrastructure platforms to provide developer self-service while maintaining security and compliance. Companies adopt Pulumi IaC so they can apply software engineering practices to their infrastructure scaling problems and because it is fully open source with a strong community and public roadmap.
At Pulumi, we’re committed to open source—always have been; always will be. Pulumi IaC is entirely open source (Apache 2.0 license), meaning you can adopt and extend it however you like. If you’re new to Pulumi, the open source edition is an excellent way to start modernizing your infrastructure. But as your organization grows and the complexity of your environment increases, you may find yourself devoting significant time to rolling your own enterprise IaC backend features.