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Cloud Engineering |
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Apply software engineering practices and tools across infrastructure, development, and compliance teams to tame the complexity of modern cloud applications. |
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Software engineering practices made for the cloud |
Apply standard software engineering practices and tools uniformly across infrastructure, development, and compliance teams to tame the
complexity of delivering and managing modern cloud applications.
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Best practices |
Cloud Engineering teams build, deploy, and manage modern cloud applications
and [infrastructure as software](/what-is/what-is-infrastructure-as-software/)
written in general purpose languages, including the application logic, cloud infrastructure,
and cloud policies.
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Build |
Cloud engineers use cloud resources to build shared services platforms and reusable infrastructure components.
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General-Purpose Programming Languages |
Define infrastructure with general-purpose programming languages like TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, and Java and use standard constructs like loops
and conditionals. This gives you the flexibility of loops, functions, and conditionals when you want them. You can also use a markup language like YAML, or a domain-specific language like HCL, depending on what fits your team.
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Broad Development Ecosystem |
Use programming languages and modern software development tools to increase speed and quality. For example, developers can use IDEs, test frameworks,
and package managers to build infrastructure.
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Modern Application Development Experience |
Build modern architectures (such as Kubernetes or serverless) on multiple clouds using a streamlined, more productive workflow and toolset instead of
stitching together multiple deployment tools and Bash scripts.
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Share and Reuse Best Practices |
Build higher-level frameworks and custom platforms for cloud infrastructure that codify your best practices. Share these best practices within your company
or with the community.
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Deploy |
Cloud engineers deliver both infrastructure and application code through a unified process that increases efficiency and quality.
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Unified Infrastructure & Application CI/CD Pipeline |
Deliver infrastructure and application code through a single CI/CD pipeline rather than separate pipelines for each. This streamlines versioning, building,
testing, and deploying cloud applications.
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Test Frameworks for Infrastructure |
Run unit and integration tests to validate infrastructure changes before deploying them to production. This encourages a test-driven development approach that
reduces errors and increases deployment confidence.
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Advanced Deployment Automation |
Orchestrate automated deployments by programming them within application code. This enables programmatically deploying infrastructure with APIs instead of
using a CLI-driven workflow.
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End-to-End Change History |
All application and infrastructure changes are tracked with a complete history of who changed what and when. Maintain fine-grained diffs and set up the ability
to easily roll back changes, if needed.
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Manage |
Cloud engineers manage their cloud infrastructure and applications with Policy-as-Code, access controls, and auditing histories.
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Policy-as-Code |
Define Policy-as-Code to proactively enforce compliance across your infrastructure and correct configuration drift. You can write rules that check for security,
cost, reliability, best practices, and more.
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Auditing and Access Controls |
Create visibility across your infrastructure using audit logs and viewing diffs for cloud resource changes, just like in Git. Set fine-grained controls on who can
access and change infrastructure within your organization.
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Team-wide Visibility |
Ensure that your entire team (both infrastructure and developer roles) has visibility across cloud applications, including what resources exist and which changes
have been made. This builds better collaboration for all.
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Benefits of<br />Cloud Engineering |
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Unlock the potential of the modern cloud |
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Modern cloud architectures, such as Kubernetes, have high innovation potential but are complicated to adopt. Cloud engineering empowers teams to tame this complexity
with software engineering practices and tools.
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Increase innovation velocity and agility |
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Cloud engineering democratizes the cloud for developers. By using reusable infrastructure components written in programming languages, developers can more easily
use the infrastructure they need to build applications faster.
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Decrease infrastructure risks |
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Cloud engineering “shifts risk left” through frequent testing. Every change is reviewed and tested before deployment. Policy-as-Code enforces compliance across every
deployment, and access controls prevent unauthorized changes.
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Foster closer collaboration |
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Cloud engineering breaks down silos between infrastructure, application development, and compliance teams through shared languages, tools, and processes. This
increases collaboration and efficiency by removing process friction.
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Use cases |
Learn more about the solutions that are enabled by cloud engineering. |
See Solutions |
Shared services platforms |
Greenfield modern applications |
AI and ML workloads |
On-premises to cloud migration |
Migrate from an existing tool |
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Case studies |
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snowflake |
/case-studies/snowflake |
Jonas-Taha El Sesiy |
Senior Software Engineer |
Ultimately, I think what really excited us about Pulumi was that we could use
languages that we already know for cloud infrastructure and we knew we could
solve for future use cases that we hadn’t even thought of yet - all because
the languages and tools are general-purpose.
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mercedes-benz-rdna |
/case-studies/mercedes-benz |
Dinesh Ramamurthy |
Engineering Manager, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America |
I needed a solution that cut across silos and gave our developers a tool they
could use themselves to provision infrastructure to suit their own immediate needs.
The way Pulumi solves the multi-cloud problem is exactly what I was looking for.
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credijusto |
case-studies/credijusto/ |
Fernando Carlietti |
Lead DevOps Engineer, Credijusto |
Once you use a familiar programming language to tackle a problem, you see that
you can do way more in less time. Pulumi was a natural choice based on the background
and skills of our people in DevOps.
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lemonade |
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Igor Shapiro |
Principal Engineer at Lemonade |
Pulumi’s Automation API helps us to build on existing best practices and further automate
our deployment process — eliminating manual tasks and exception handling.
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hyland |
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Pulumi is the foundational technology that allowed us to transform our
organization…Our industry moves with incredible speed and using tools like
Pulumi are absolutely essential to providing teams with the agility that they require.
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menta |
case-studies/menta-network/ |
Ernesto Mendoza |
CTO at Menta Network |
At Menta Network we have a lot of experience with Ansible and Puppet but wanted
to shift to more modern tools to manage our infrastructure. We tried Terraform but
found that Pulumi was far easier to use given its Python support. Ultimately, Pulumi
is just as robust as Terraform and has the added benefit of reducing the complexity
of managing many configurations and environments.
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sourcegraph |
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Beyang Liu |
Sourcegraph CTO |
Pulumi has changed how our team works by giving us deployment superpowers. It’s great
to run ‘pulumi up’ and not have to worry about deploying an invalid configuration.
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fenergo |
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Keith Redmond |
VP of SaaS Engineering, Fenergo |
Pulumi improved our time-to-market by removing cloud infrastructure as a roadblock to business innovation. Our developers rely on Pulumi’s Universal Infrastructure as Code and software engineering approach to build modern cloud applications, including the underlying infrastructure, using programming languages they understand. This has resulted in faster software delivery, closer collaboration and higher-quality deployments. Every developer is now empowered to move faster and spend more time on developing things that matter to our customers, which drives a competitive advantage for Fenergo.
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Get started with Cloud Engineering |
Get Started |
Pulumi is a cloud engineering platform that brings infrastructure, application
development, and compliance teams together through a unified software engineering
process to deliver and manage modern cloud applications
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