Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform

Re:Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform by fiatjaf on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:52PM (#17339694)

What is an open-source cloud development platform? I've read the first 5 paragraphs of the blog post and skimmed through the landing page, I've also clicked on the "38 lines of code" example, and I still don't understand where does this fits. I imagined it was something like Heroku, but I guess I was wrong.

I'll keep trying to understand it, anyway.

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Re:Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform by lindydonna on Monday June 18, 2018 @02:56PM (#17340727)

(I'm a product manager at Pulumi.)

Pulumi lets you describe cloud resources using code instead of a config language. It's not like Heroku, it's more like a deployment tool (e.g. Serverless Framework, Terraform, Claudia.js, Chalice, etc).

The difference compared to other deployment tools is that you use regular code, but it's turned into a declarative plan when you run `pulumi update`. So, you get the benefits of a regular programming language, while still following best practices of immutable infrastructure.

Does that help?

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Re:Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform by akavel on Monday June 18, 2018 @04:05PM (#17341252)

Then is this something like NixOps [1]? Or how does it differ?

[1] https://nixos.org/nixops/

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Re:Pulumi – A new open-source cloud development platform by cwp on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:14AM (#17343779)

Joe mentions working with "existing language package managers". That probably doesn't include nixpkgs, but perhaps it could.

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