Day Two Cloud 146: Deploying And Managing Cloud Infrastructure With Pulumi

Today’s Day Two Cloud digs into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform called Pulumi. Pulumi can be used to build, deploy, and manage cloud applications using familiar languages such as .Net and Java, as well as well-known tools and practices. Our guest is Matty Stratton, Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi. We discuss: * Pulumi’s view of Infrastructure as Software vs. Infrastructure as Code * Pulumi as an SDK * Languages Pulumi supports * How Pulumi tracks state * Paid vs. open-source versions of Pulumi * Use cases and examples * More Sponsor: StrongDM StrongDM is secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. StrongDM proxies connections between your infrastructure and Sysadmins, giving your IT team auditable, policy-driven, IaC-configurable access to whatever they need, wherever they are. Find out more at StrongDM.com/packetpushers. Show Links: Get Started With Pulumi Pulumi Blog Learn Pulumi Pulumi Resources Pulumi on YouTube Pulumi on Twitch @mattstratton – Matty Stratton on Twitter Matty’s blog Matty Stratton on LinkedIn Transcript: Please note this transcription is generated by an automated system and may contain errors. [00:00:01.150] – Ethan Sponsor StrongDM is secure infrastructure access for the modern stack. Strong DM proxies connections between your infrastructure and Sysadmins, giving your It team auditable, policy driven IEC configurable access to whatever they need, wherever they are. Find out [email protected] PacketPushers [00:00:27.870] – Ethan Welcome to Day Two Cloud. We got an action packed show today, I think, don’t we, Ned? Here, we’re talking about Pulumi. So if you like Terraform or maybe Ansible or Chef and you’ve spent time in those worlds, Pulumi is also in that world. And we dive into what Pulumi is all about, don’t we, Ned? [00:00:46.990] – Ned We sure do. [00:00:47.710] – Ned And if you’re thinking, oh, this is another infrastructure as code conversation, well, it’s a little bit more than that because now we’re talking about infrastructure as software. So if that’s of interest to you, tune into this conversation with Mattie Stratton from Pulumi. [00:01:00.250] – Ethan Mattie Stratton, welcome to Day Two Cloud. And for the audience that doesn’t know you yet, who are you and what do you do? [00:01:07.110] – Matt Hi. That’s a great question. We’ll keep it tight. My name is Mattie Stratton. Currently I am a staff developer advocate at Pulumi. I’ve been in the DevOps space for a long time, and I’ve worked in Ops for an even longer time. Okay. [00:01:20.520] – Ethan So working at Pulumi, and that is the focus of the show. So in a sentence or two, give us the what is Pulumi answer. [00:01:28.050] – Matt So I always like, you’ve probably heard of infrastructure as code.