January 2019 Summaries

Pulumi has expanded its integration capabilities by adding support for Atlassian Bitbucket, allowing users to sign up for or connect their Atlassian identity with a Pulumi account, joining existing integrations with GitLab and GitHub. This development facilitates users in managing repositories across different version control systems by enabling the import of GitHub Organizations, GitLab Groups, and now Bitbucket Teams into a single Pulumi account, while maintaining the option for separate accounts if preferred. Users can begin using their Atlassian identity by authenticating on the Pulumi platform and can also connect an existing account by adjusting account settings. Bitbucket Teams can organize users into groups with defined permissions for repository access, which can be mirrored in Pulumi for collaborative work. Additionally, the Pulumi CLI supports integration with various CI/CD workflows, and users are encouraged to consult the documentation for guidance or contribute by suggesting additional systems for documentation.

Pulumi has introduced Webhooks for its Team and Enterprise editions, enabling teams to receive notifications and respond to infrastructure changes across various cloud platforms like Kubernetes and AWS. These Webhooks facilitate ChatOps, enhancing cloud-native infrastructure delivery by integrating with services such as Slack, GitHub, and Twilio. Users can attach Webhooks to specific stacks or organizations, triggering HTTP POST requests to registered listeners upon stack changes, previews, or updates. This feature allows for diverse applications, including notifications, automated testing, and stack updates. Pulumi provides an example of setting up a Webhook handler using its cloud package, allowing seamless integration and communication with Slack. The Webhook handler can be deployed using Pulumi commands, and once operational, it can respond to three types of events: stack creation/deletion, stack updates, and stack previews. Pulumi encourages users to share their experiences and feedback to further develop the Webhook feature.

Pulumi aims to simplify serverless programming on AWS by allowing developers to create cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages, leveraging existing constructs like flow control and inheritance for an intuitive development experience. The platform enables users to create components such as AWS Lambdas using JavaScript functions more easily than traditional methods, reducing complexity in integrating these elements into serverless applications. By providing prebuilt components and a streamlined API, Pulumi facilitates the handling of various AWS resources and events like S3 buckets and Cloudwatch Events, while also offering flexibility to tweak configurations. Developers can create or reference cloud resources, respond to serverless events, and integrate AWS SDK functionalities seamlessly within their applications, exemplified by comprehensive examples such as the Twitter+Athena project.

Pulumi is organizing a webinar with AWS Fargate on February 5th at 10 AM PST, focusing on the implementation of cloud-native infrastructure using AWS and Pulumi's general-purpose programming languages. The event will cover how these languages can address infrastructure-as-code challenges, build efficient code libraries for standard policies and network best practices, and transition organizations towards being deployment-focused rather than configuration-focused. The webinar will feature insights from Pulumi customer Learning Machine, which significantly reduced its codebase using Pulumi, improving various operational aspects. Participants, including developers, system architects, and IT and DevOps managers, will have the opportunity to engage with speakers such as Trevor Hansen from AWS, Luke Hoban from Pulumi, and Kim Hamilton Duffy from Learning Machine. Additional resources like an e-book and a case study are available to provide further information about the event.