Pulumi's Internal Developer Platform sets standards and relieves developers
Infrastructure-as-code provider Pulumi presents an internal developer platform that standardizes templates and simplifies the work of developers.
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The infrastructure-as-code service Pulumi is publishing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP): The graphical interface, which is based on the existing open source service, provides developers with templates for applications and services that contain security rules, guidelines and best practices. Companies use the templates to enforce standards on the one hand and relieve the burden on development teams on the other.
The IDP integrates into existing service structures such as deployments, Copilot and CrossGuard as well as common extensions based on REST or data models.
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Components, templates and rules
In the IDP, platform teams create Pulumi Building Blocks in a private registry of their own company as templates for components, templates or policies. Developers use the sample blocks, which contain configured, reusable cloud infrastructure templates, for example for applications, microservices or clusters. As with the Pulumi basic service, the programming languages TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java or YAML can be used. The registry also offers documentation, search and semantic versioning.
Developers can access the blocks in the registry in various ways: with a no-code interface, low-code YAML-based, a CI/CD pipeline, programming languages or REST APIs. Users combine their projects in services as logical containers, including infrastructure, configuration, secrets, documentation and observability dashboards. Examples of services are web applications, microservices, Jupyter Notebooks or data pipelines.
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From July 1 to 4, 2025, interested parties will find a packed line-up with more than 200 highlights at the Cloud Native Festival CloudLand –, including the topic of platform engineering. Visitors can expect a colorful mix of predominantly interactive sessions, hands-on sessions and workshops, accompanied by a comprehensive supporting program that invites active participation.
Spread across up to ten streams, which are characterized by topics from the communities of the cloud hyperscalers AWS, Azure and Google, there are sessions on:
- Cloud-native software engineering
- architecture
- AI & ML
- Data & BI
- DevOps
- Public Cloud
- Security & Compliance
- Organization & Culture
- Sovereign Cloud
- Compute, Storage & Network
Tickets for the festival are still available until May 6 at a special early bird price.
Free of charge in the preview phase
Golden Paths can be used to cover even more advanced functions, such as determining deviations from policies, finding obsolete components or update management. Furthermore, a graphical import tool helps to integrate existing infrastructure and an identity management (IAM) defines roles and access rights.
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The IDP will be part of the paid Pulumi Cloud as a managed service, but the recently published preview is free of charge. The manufacturer plans to announce prices later this year. There is an open source reference architecture for organizations that want to build their own IDP based on Pulumi.
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