Six Things You Might Not Know About the Pulumi Service

Pulumi Service, the state-management backend of the Pulumi CLI, offers a range of features for managing infrastructure, including stack tags for organization, linking updates to CI/CD pipelines, customizing update messages, viewing resource changes, visualizing stack resources, and drilling into resource properties. Users can manage stack tags through both the CLI and the Pulumi Console, improving project organization and resource management. The service supports linking stack updates to CI/CD jobs and source commits for better traceability and allows customization of update messages to provide context for infrastructure changes. Different views, such as Diff and Diagnostic, offer insights into resource modifications and update logs, while the Stack Resource Visualization feature aids in understanding resource relationships through an interactive graph. Users can explore resource properties in detail and access cloud provider consoles directly from Pulumi, with ongoing updates and community support enhancing the service's capabilities.