Pulumi
Create, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any cloud using your favorite language.
Overview
Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code platform that helps teams tame the cloud’s complexity using the world’s most popular programming languages. Pulumi enables engineers to write, deploy, and manage infrastructure on any public, private, or hybrid cloud, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more.
✨ Key Features
- Use familiar languages (TypeScript, Python, Go, C#)
- Multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud support
- State management (via Pulumi Service or self-hosted)
- Policy as Code
- Testing frameworks for infrastructure
- Automation API for programmatic control
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Use of general-purpose programming languages, enabling loops, logic, and abstractions
- Ability to unit test infrastructure code
- Unified approach for both infrastructure and application code
- Automation API allows embedding IaC into applications
Unique Value: Empowers developers to manage cloud infrastructure using the same languages and tools they use for application development, enabling better collaboration and more robust engineering practices.
🎯 Use Cases (4)
✅ Best For
- Defining both application and infrastructure code in the same language and repository
- Creating complex, dynamic infrastructure based on application logic
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Teams preferring a simpler, declarative-only DSL (Terraform's HCL may be better)
- Environments where installing language runtimes is prohibited
🏆 Alternatives
Unlike Terraform's DSL, Pulumi allows for greater expressiveness and the use of existing software engineering tools (IDEs, test frameworks, package managers) for infrastructure.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
✓ 21-day free trial
Free tier: Individual Edition is free for unlimited use.
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