Since the launch of its open source infrastructure as code platform that supports the use of general-purpose programming languages for cloud development, Pulumi's product range has expanded to provide a solution to automating and managing cloud workflows. Now, moving with the times, it is giving AI a greater role.

 

 

According to Pulumi

Intelligent Cloud is about reimagining cloud automation, security, and management in an AI-first era. It unites developers, infrastructure experts, and security teams, improving time to market, ensuring automatic security, and helping tame cloud chaos.  

 

Pulumi's intelligent cloud management is intended to let users manage complex multi-cloud demands using an AI-driven policy and insights engine with auto-remediations, improving speed and taming chaos at the same time.

 

The first of the two products announcements at PulumiUp is the general availability of Pulumi ESC which made its debut in October 2023. ESC stands for Environments, Secrets, and Configuration and addresses the problems of managing the complex web of secrets, such as passwords and keys, that modern applications require.  Secrets scattered across numerous systems and platforms make it nearly impossible to track their usage, enforce consistent security policies, and prevent unauthorized access, significantly increasing the likelihood of a breach. Pulumi ESC integrates with  many secrets stores (AWS, Azure, Google, HashiCorp Vault, 1Password) and targets (CLI, SDKs, K8s) and used with Pulumi Cloud ensures security and governance including SAML/SSO, RBAC/Teams, Auditing, Webhooks. New capabilities in GA include Versioning, Tagging, Syncing and a VS Code Extension.

 

 

The second product launch is for Insights 2.0, which is in preview. It builds on Pulumi's previous generation of tools to provide the following capabilities:

• Bring visibility to your entire infrastructure by enabling you to scan and import all of your resources
• Add new visual explorers, structured graphs and dashboards for understanding and managing your entire infrastructure
• Extends Pulumi CrossGuard to provide direct remediation of discovered policy violations inside the Pulumi Cloud
• Integrates Pulumi IaC to make it easy to incrementally bring your infrastructure under management with Pulumi IaC in just a few clicks
• Brings Pulumi Copilot to your entire infrastructure for intelligent insight discovery and analysis