Pulumi
Pulumi is an alternative to Terraform and OpenTofu: instead of HCL you write real code with loops, functions and tests. It keeps state, shows a preview and applies changes like Terraform does.
Key concepts #
- Stack: an instance of a program, for example
devorprod. - State: stored in Pulumi Cloud or in an object store.
- Providers: many are bridged from Terraform providers.
Learn it #
Compare approaches in Terraform vs OpenTofu and Terraform vs CloudFormation.
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