In an enterprise organization, an IT self-service “vending machine” allows employees to quickly and easily request and receive access to pre-approved cloud resources. Behind the scenes, Pulumi programs may orchestrate any of the requisite resources. We will look at an example of using Pulumi to create an AWS child account, within an AWS Organization.
GitHub Actions help automate tasks within your software development life cycle. At Pulumi, we use GitHub Actions internally as part of every build/release cycle, and we run these tasks many, many times per day. This helps us to automate our CI/CD process and eliminate manual steps. Pulumi and many of our customers also deliver infrastructure resources as part of a CI/CD process: delivering infrastructure and applications in a single, integrated pipeline.
We are excited to announce the launch of native support for integrating GitLab Merge Requests with Pulumi. By integrating your GitLab Projects directly with Pulumi, you can now approve your merge requests with confidence.
Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. This makes it a perfect fit for Pulumi to unleash the power of Spinnaker and its continuous delivery capabilities to all of the providers that Pulumi supports today and in the future. We have written a developer guide showing you how to install the plugin in your Spinnaker instance and start using it right away.
Pulumi has many resource providers that allow you to interact with your favorite cloud or resource. There are times when a provider may not deliver on the specific task that you want to accomplish. Dynamic Providers can be a powerful tool to help accomplish your infrastructure tasks.
We are very excited to announce that we have partnered with GitHub to offer our users better protection for their Pulumi Access Tokens.
By default, Pulumi users manage the state of their cloud infrastructure deployments using https://app.pulumi.com. This service provides state storage, concurrency control, audit history and access controls for both individuals and teams working with Pulumi. Each user and service account can generate one or more Pulumi Access Tokens to be used to authenticate with this service. These access tokens can be used on both local development machines, as well as in CI/CD systems for automated infrastructure deployments. These access tokens are sensitive secrets which should never be shared publicly, and in particular should never be committed to source control.
Azure DevOps is very popular among teams that want a single place to manage their development pipelines, Git repositories, builds, releases, and test plans. Pulumi’s open-source tools are a great choice for developers and operators deploying infrastructure as code on Azure. With these two tools at hand, adopting CI and CD for your Azure infrastructure is just a few steps away for you and your teams. To make it easy to use Pulumi with Azure, we are announcing an open-source task extension for Azure Pipelines!
We have been hard at work the past few months providing our users with more ways to connect to Pulumi. Here are some our past announcements related to identities: Support for Atlassian identity Connecting multiple identities to an existing Pulumi account Support for GitLab identity Today, we are pleased to announce that we are launching support for email-based identities. You no longer need to use a social identity to sign-up for an account on Pulumi.
Today we added support for yet another developer favorite product, Atlassian Bitbucket. You can now sign-up for a Pulumi account with an Atlassian identity. This also means you can connect your Atlassian identity with an existing Pulumi account.
This work follows on from the support for GitLab identity and also the ability to connect identities, eliminating the need for users to create multiple accounts on Pulumi.
This helps users with repos across the major version control systems to seamlessly import their GitHub Organizations and GitLab Groups - and now Atlassian Bitbucket Teams - into a single Pulumi account. Of course, you don’t need to connect identities. You can always create separate account for each of your identities, if that’s what you want to do.
Hot on the heels of our GitLab sign-in support, we’ve just released support for multiple identities for a single Pulumi account in the Pulumi Service. Previously, you could only sign-up for a new Pulumi account using a GitHub or GitLab identity. Starting today, you can connect your Pulumi account with additional identities, beyond what you first signed-up with.
