Scott Lowe, a veteran IT professional and Staff Kubernetes Architect at VMware, shares his experience using Pulumi to manage and test AWS environments for Kubernetes projects, particularly the Cluster API project. Cluster API is a Kubernetes initiative that employs a declarative API to manage Kubernetes cluster lifecycles, allowing for seamless management of clusters both on-premises and in the cloud. Scott uses Pulumi, an infrastructure-as-code tool, to quickly define, test, and deploy infrastructure across multiple AWS regions, facilitating the testing of Kubernetes and other related technologies. By employing Pulumi projects written in TypeScript, he manages consistent configurations across regions, creating a versatile test environment that supports the spinning up of VPCs, security groups, and instances necessary for Kubernetes clusters. This infrastructure-as-code approach has significantly streamlined his process, enabling rapid deployment and teardown of environments, which would otherwise be time-consuming without such tools.