Podcast Season 1 · Episode 1
Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi
Talking with Lee Briggs about Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Lee explains what IaC means and how Pulumi is working on a solution that allows you to stay in the same language as your code.
Guests
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
