Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi

Original: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-1-infrastructure-as-code-with-pulumi

Questions

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Why would you want to adopt IaC?

• Who made changes to the code
• Ticket that was linked
• Collaboration
• Documentation

Does IaC document your infrastructure?

Does IaC allow for solid Dev Ops?

Pulumi

What is Pulumi?

What makes Pulumi different than

• Serverless Framework - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/serverless/
• Cloud Formation - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/cloud _ templates/
• Terraform - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/terraform/
• Arm

Will IaC take longer?

• Should it be used for an MVP?
• How large of a team would you have before using IaC?
• Is it worth the time to set up if it is just something quick.

Is Pulumi good for single code shops that know only a single language?

• Speed to market is easier.
• No need to learn markup language

How big is the learning curve of IaC?

• Serverless is YAML

Pulumi support “ecosystems”

• NodeJS
• Go
• .Net