Ten More Things You Can Do With Pulumi Neo

Pulumi Neo has evolved significantly since its launch, enhancing its capabilities to support platform teams in automating and streamlining infrastructure tasks. Initially focused on simplifying cloud deployment, Neo now integrates with the Pulumi CLI, GitHub, and Slack, offering diverse functionalities such as deploying applications to AWS, diagnosing API performance issues, triaging alerts, and implementing tickets from tools like Linear and Jira. Neo also aids in auditing and tightening IAM roles, migrating services to Kubernetes, and managing infrastructure drift with scheduled checks. By automating routine tasks such as weekly upgrades for outdated runtimes and fixing compliance issues like CIS Benchmark failures, Neo acts as a virtual platform engineer, leveraging organizational context and established conventions to propose changes and improvements via pull requests. This approach shifts the role of platform engineers from hands-on management to oversight, enabling them to delegate tasks and focus on strategic decision-making.