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Date Published
Author
Kimberley Mackenzie
Word count
422
Language
English
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None

Summary

Pulumi has introduced a significant update to its ESC Table Editor, now offering full support for provider configurations, thereby enhancing user interaction with application and infrastructure settings. Initially designed to offer a user-friendly interface for managing complex configurations and secrets, the Table Editor allowed CRUD operations on secrets and plaintext values. With the new update, users can now add, edit, and manage provider configurations directly from the table view, streamlining workflows by integrating Pulumi ESC's provider capabilities. Pulumi's provider ecosystem is robust, offering dynamic cloud provider credentials and secure secret retrieval from external managers like AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault. This enhances security by eliminating static credentials and enables runtime retrieval of sensitive information to be applied seamlessly to applications. The update simplifies the process by providing a clean, user-friendly form that promotes best practices, reducing the need for external documentation and making the experience more intuitive. Pulumi encourages user feedback to continue refining the Table Editor and other tools based on user needs.