Pulumi has introduced new features to streamline the process of building cloud applications using familiar languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and Go across various cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and OpenStack. Users can access a selection of templates via the Pulumi dashboard or CLI to quickly scaffold their apps, with a new feature allowing them to create projects directly from the dashboard by selecting from a matrix of cloud providers and languages. These templates, which can also be customized and submitted as pull requests on GitHub, facilitate the creation of boilerplate stacks like storage buckets. Once a template is chosen, users can initialize their stack using command line instructions provided on the project page, preview it, and deploy it using the relevant cloud setup. Pulumi encourages community engagement through Slack conversations, documentation, and contributions of new templates.