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@@ -1,15 +1,66 @@
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title: Cloud Engineering
-meta_desc: Apply software engineering practices and tools across infrastructure, development, and compliance teams to tame the complexity of modern cloud applications.
+meta_desc: Transform infrastructure into business acceleration with modern tooling, AI-powered operations, and 2-3x ROI.
type: page
layout: cloud-engineering
overview:
- title: Software engineering practices made for the cloud
+ title: Modern Infrastructure Platform for the AI Era
description: |
- Apply standard software engineering practices and tools uniformly across infrastructure, development, and compliance teams to tame the
- complexity of delivering and managing modern cloud applications.
+ Pulumi transforms how organizations build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using real programming languages, comprehensive governance, and AI-powered operations. Join industry leaders achieving 2-3x ROI through modern infrastructure practices.
+
+maturity_stages:
+ title: Where are you in your platform engineering journey?
+ description: |
+ Organizations progress through distinct stages of platform engineering maturity, each with unique challenges and opportunities.
+ items:
+ - title: Automate Stage
+ description: |
+ Eliminate manual processes and build foundational cloud competency through automated provisioning and deployment workflows.
+
+ - title: Secure Stage
+ description: |
+ Implement policy-driven infrastructure with built-in governance, compliance controls, and security best practices across all environments.
+
+ - title: Manage Stage
+ description: |
+ Achieve full visibility and self-service capabilities at scale with comprehensive observability, cost optimization, and developer productivity tools.
+
+strategic_business_value:
+ title: Transform Infrastructure into Business Acceleration
+ description: |
+ Organizations using Pulumi's modern infrastructure platform achieve measurable business outcomes that drive competitive advantage and operational excellence.
+ items:
+ - title: 2-3x ROI over three years with 6-month payback period
+ icon: guage
+ icon_color: green
+ description: |
+ Comprehensive TEI study demonstrates substantial financial returns through reduced operational overhead, accelerated deployment cycles, and improved developer productivity across enterprise organizations.
+
+ - title: 25% faster time-to-market for revenue-impacting projects
+ icon: lightning
+ icon_color: yellow
+ description: |
+ Modern infrastructure practices eliminate deployment bottlenecks and enable self-service capabilities that accelerate innovation cycles and competitive responsiveness.
+
+ - title: 20% improvement in engineering productivity
+ icon: team
+ icon_color: blue
+ description: |
+ Unified tooling and familiar programming languages reduce context switching and learning curves, allowing engineering teams to focus on business logic rather than infrastructure complexity.
+
+ - title: 3x cost optimization through intelligent optimization
+ icon: exchange
+ icon_color: purple
+ description: |
+ AI-powered insights and automated governance identify cost optimization opportunities, prevent resource waste, and optimize infrastructure spend across multi-cloud environments.
+
+ - title: 2x reduction in security incidents through comprehensive governance
+ icon: shield
+ icon_color: salmon
+ description: |
+ Policy-as-code enforcement, automated compliance checks, and comprehensive audit trails reduce security vulnerabilities and regulatory compliance risks.
best_practices:
title: Best practices
@@ -19,106 +70,210 @@ best_practices:
written in general purpose languages, including the application logic, cloud infrastructure,
and cloud policies.
+discover:
+ title: Discover
+ description: |
+ Gain real-time visibility into your cloud infrastructure to make data-driven decisions that reduce risk and optimize costs.
+ items:
+ - title: Real-time Compliance Monitoring
+ description: |
+ Prevent regulatory violations that cost organizations $4.88 million per incident on average through continuous policy enforcement and automated compliance checks.
+
+ - title: Cost Visibility
+ description: |
+ Eliminate 30-40% of cloud waste through visibility-driven rightsizing across the $675.4 billion global cloud market with comprehensive resource tracking and optimization recommendations.
+
+ - title: Deployment Observability
+ description: |
+ Reduce unplanned downtime by 85% through proactive infrastructure management with real-time monitoring, change tracking, and predictive alerting capabilities.
+
+ - title: Infrastructure State Management
+ description: |
+ Maintain complete visibility into resource dependencies, configuration drift detection, and infrastructure health across multi-cloud environments for informed decision-making.
+
build:
title: Build
description: |
- Cloud engineers use cloud resources to build shared services platforms and reusable infrastructure components.
+ Create self-service infrastructure that doesn't compromise on security using real programming languages, comprehensive governance, and AI-powered assistance.
items:
- - title: General-Purpose Programming Languages
+ - title: Real Programming Languages with 1.8M+ Package Ecosystem
description: |
- Define infrastructure with general-purpose programming languages like TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, and Java and use standard constructs like loops
- and conditionals. This gives you more flexibility and reduces complexity compared to domain-specific languages. You could also use markup languages like YAML as a simple way for consuming complex infrastructure modeled in general-purpose languages.
+ Define infrastructure with TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java, or YAML—use what your team knows. Access the entire package ecosystem including cloud provider libraries, testing frameworks, and community modules, providing unlimited extensibility compared to domain-specific languages.
- - title: Broad Development Ecosystem
+ - title: AI-Powered Infrastructure with Pulumi Copilot
description: |
- Use programming languages and modern software development tools to increase speed and quality. For example, developers can use IDEs, test frameworks,
- and package managers to build infrastructure.
+ Natural language infrastructure definition and modification through AI assistance. Get intelligent optimization recommendations, context-aware suggestions based on existing infrastructure, and seamless integration with development workflows and tools.
- - title: Modern Application Development Experience
+ - title: Unified Platform Integration
description: |
- Build modern architectures (such as Kubernetes or serverless) on multiple clouds using a streamlined, more productive workflow and toolset instead of
- stitching together multiple deployment tools and Bash scripts.
+ Pulumi IaC: Foundation using real programming languages
+ Pulumi ESC: Centralized secrets and configuration management with dynamic credentials
+ Pulumi CrossGuard: Policy-as-code with automatic security and compliance enforcement
+ Pulumi Insights: Real-time infrastructure visibility and cost optimization
- - title: Share and Reuse Best Practices
+ - title: Enterprise-Grade Component Libraries
description: |
- Build higher-level frameworks and custom platforms for cloud infrastructure that codify your best practices. Share these best practices within your company
- or with the community.
+ Build higher-level frameworks and custom platforms that codify your best practices. Create reusable components that work consistently across clouds and teams, reducing infrastructure code by up to 50% through standardized patterns.
deploy:
title: Deploy
description: |
- Cloud engineers deliver both infrastructure and application code through a unified process that increases efficiency and quality.
+ Achieve 2x faster deployments with 4x higher success rates through AI-powered optimization, comprehensive GitOps integration, and unified infrastructure and application delivery.
items:
- - title: Unified Infrastructure & Application CI/CD Pipeline
+ - title: AI-Enhanced Deployment Intelligence
description: |
- Deliver infrastructure and application code through a single CI/CD pipeline rather than separate pipelines for each. This streamlines versioning, building,
- testing, and deploying cloud applications.
+ Get intelligent optimization recommendations during deployment, automated rollback suggestions for failed changes, and predictive analysis for deployment risks. Pulumi Copilot provides context-aware guidance throughout the deployment process.
- - title: Test Frameworks for Infrastructure
+ - title: Unified Infrastructure & Application CI/CD Pipeline
description: |
- Run unit and integration tests to validate infrastructure changes before deploying them to production. This encourages a test-driven development approach that
- reduces errors and increases deployment confidence.
+ Deliver infrastructure and application code through a single CI/CD pipeline with comprehensive GitOps integration. This streamlines versioning, building, testing, and deploying cloud applications while maintaining complete audit trails.
- - title: Advanced Deployment Automation
+ - title: Advanced Testing & Validation Frameworks
description: |
- Orchestrate automated deployments by programming them within application code. This enables programmatically deploying infrastructure with APIs instead of
- using a CLI-driven workflow.
+ Run unit, integration, and policy tests to validate infrastructure changes before production deployment. Test-driven development approach provides 6x error reduction and increases deployment confidence through automated validation.
- - title: End-to-End Change History
+ - title: Enterprise Governance & Compliance
description: |
- All application and infrastructure changes are tracked with a complete history of who changed what and when. Maintain fine-grained diffs and set up the ability
- to easily roll back changes, if needed.
+ Comprehensive RBAC, audit capabilities, and policy enforcement ensure all deployments meet security and compliance requirements. Track all changes with complete history, fine-grained diffs, and automated rollback capabilities.
manage:
- title: Manage
+ title: Scale
description: |
- Cloud engineers manage their cloud infrastructure and applications with Policy-as-Code, access controls, and auditing histories.
+ Handle growth without hiring proportionally more platform engineers. Achieve developer-to-platform engineer ratios of 15:1 through intelligent automation, comprehensive governance, and 4x reduction in management overhead.
items:
- - title: Policy-as-Code
+ - title: AI-Powered Multi-Cloud Intelligence
description: |
- Define Policy-as-Code to proactively enforce compliance across your infrastructure and correct configuration drift. You can write rules that check for security,
- cost, reliability, best practices, and more.
+ Pulumi Insights provides automated optimization recommendations, cost anomaly detection, and intelligent resource rightsizing across all cloud providers. Identify 2-4x cost optimization opportunities automatically while maintaining performance standards.
- - title: Auditing and Access Controls
+ - title: Self-Service Developer Portals with Governance
description: |
- Create visibility across your infrastructure using audit logs and viewing diffs for cloud resource changes, just like in Git. Set fine-grained controls on who can
- access and change infrastructure within your organization.
+ Enable unlimited developers without platform team involvement through automated policy enforcement, standardized component libraries, and comprehensive audit trails. Golden paths implementation ensures consistency while maintaining developer velocity.
- - title: Team-wide Visibility
+ - title: Enterprise-Scale Configuration Management
description: |
- Ensure that your entire team (both infrastructure and developer roles) has visibility across cloud applications, including what resources exist and which changes
- have been made. This builds better collaboration for all.
+ Pulumi ESC handles unlimited environments and secrets with hierarchical configuration, dynamic credentials, and centralized policy management. Scale configuration complexity without proportional management overhead.
-benefits:
- title: Benefits of
Cloud Engineering
+ - title: Comprehensive Observability & Compliance
+ description: |
+ Real-time visibility across all infrastructure with automated compliance monitoring, policy enforcement, and complete audit trails. Track all changes with fine-grained diffs and automated remediation capabilities.
+
+platform_outcomes:
+ title: Why Organizations Choose Modern Infrastructure
+ description: |
+ The combination of Discover, Build, Deploy, and Scale capabilities delivers transformational business results that traditional approaches cannot match.
+
+competitive_differentiation:
+ title: Modern vs. Legacy Infrastructure
+ description: |
+ Organizations are moving from legacy infrastructure-as-code tools to modern platforms that provide comprehensive capabilities, better developer experience, and measurable business outcomes.
items:
- - title: Unlock the potential of the modern cloud
- icon: lock
- icon_color: purple
+ - title: Programming vs. Configuration
description: |
- Modern cloud architectures, such as Kubernetes, have high innovation potential but are complicated to adopt. Cloud engineering empowers teams to tame this complexity
- with software engineering practices and tools.
+ Modern (Pulumi): Real programming languages with 1.8M+ packages, familiar tools, and unlimited extensibility
+ Legacy: Limited domain-specific languages with restricted syntax and functionality
- - title: Increase innovation velocity and agility
+ - title: Unified Platform vs. Fragmented Tools
+ description: |
+ Modern (Pulumi): Single integrated platform with comprehensive governance, visibility, and AI-powered operations
+ Legacy: Multiple disconnected tools requiring complex integration and management overhead
+
+ - title: AI-Powered Operations vs. Manual Configuration
+ description: |
+ Modern (Pulumi): Natural language infrastructure definition, intelligent optimization, and context-aware assistance
+ Legacy: Manual configuration, limited automation, and reactive problem-solving
+
+ - title: Proven Business Impact vs. Operational Metrics
+ description: |
+ Modern (Pulumi): Measurable ROI (2-3x) with comprehensive business outcome tracking
+ Legacy: Limited visibility into business impact and value creation
+
+benefits:
+ title: Strategic Advantages of Modern Infrastructure
+ description: |
+ Transform your infrastructure approach to achieve measurable business outcomes through modern platform capabilities.
+ items:
+ - title: Innovation Velocity
+ subtitle: 25% faster time-to-market
icon: lightning
icon_color: yellow
description: |
- Cloud engineering democratizes the cloud for developers. By using reusable infrastructure components written in programming languages, developers can more easily
- use the infrastructure they need to build applications faster.
+ Eliminate deployment bottlenecks through standardized infrastructure patterns and developer self-service capabilities
+
+ AI-powered assistance accelerates development cycles and competitive responsiveness
- - title: Decrease infrastructure risks
- icon: alert
+ - title: Risk Reduction
+ subtitle: 2x reduction in security incidents
+ icon: shield
icon_color: salmon
description: |
- Cloud engineering “shifts risk left” through frequent testing. Every change is reviewed and tested before deployment. Policy-as-Code enforces compliance across every
- deployment, and access controls prevent unauthorized changes.
+ Comprehensive governance through policy enforcement and automated compliance checks
+
+ Operational resilience reduces vulnerabilities while maintaining audit-ready infrastructure
+
+ - title: Cost Optimization
+ subtitle: 3x cost optimization
+ icon: exchange
+ icon_color: purple
+ description: |
+ Intelligent visibility through AI-powered optimization recommendations and cost anomaly detection
+
+ Comprehensive resource tracking eliminates waste across multi-cloud environments
- - title: Foster closer collaboration
- icon: collab
+ - title: Operational Excellence
+ subtitle: 4x operational efficiency
+ icon: team
icon_color: blue
description: |
- Cloud engineering breaks down silos between infrastructure, application development, and compliance teams through shared languages, tools, and processes. This
- increases collaboration and efficiency by removing process friction.
+ Predictable 2-3x ROI with 6-month payback period through unified tooling and automation
+
+ Scalable platform capabilities that grow without proportional team growth
+
+implementation_pathway:
+ title: Getting Started
+ description: |
+ Begin your cloud engineering journey with a structured approach aligned to your organization's maturity stage.
+ items:
+ - title: Assessment
+ description: |
+ Do you have real-time visibility into infrastructure state and policy compliance? Evaluate your current observability gaps and governance challenges.
+
+ - title: Infrastructure Observability
+ description: |
+ Implement comprehensive monitoring and visibility tools to understand your current infrastructure state, dependencies, and compliance posture.
+
+ - title: Self-Service Workflows
+ description: |
+ Deploy developer-friendly infrastructure automation that reduces bottlenecks while maintaining security and compliance standards.
+
+ - title: Centralized Management
+ description: |
+ Enable organization-wide infrastructure governance with policy enforcement, cost optimization, and standardized practices across teams.
+
+modernization_pathways:
+ title: Gradual Modernization Without Disruption
+ description: |
+ Organizations can adopt Pulumi's modern infrastructure platform through flexible pathways that minimize risk while maximizing value, regardless of current infrastructure maturity.
+ items:
+ - title: Greenfield + Coexistence
+ description: |
+ Best for: Organizations with stable existing infrastructure and new project requirements
+ Approach: Deploy new projects with Pulumi while maintaining existing stable workloads
+ Timeline: Immediate value with 25% faster time-to-market for new initiatives
+ Outcome: Risk-free modernization with proven results before broader adoption
+
+ - title: Enhanced Governance
+ description: |
+ Best for: Organizations with compliance requirements and multi-tool environments
+ Approach: Implement comprehensive policies and governance across all infrastructure regardless of tooling
+ Timeline: 30-60 days to comprehensive governance implementation
+ Outcome: 2x reduction in security incidents and unified compliance reporting
+
+ - title: Platform Transformation
+ description: |
+ Best for: Organizations ready for comprehensive modernization and maximum benefits
+ Approach: Complete migration to unified modern infrastructure platform with AI-powered operations
+ Timeline: 6-12 months for full transformation with 6-month ROI payback
+ Outcome: 2-3x ROI with complete platform engineering transformation
use_cases:
title: Use cases
@@ -138,6 +293,7 @@ case_studies:
link: /case-studies/snowflake
name: Jonas-Taha El Sesiy
title: Senior Software Engineer
+ stage: Language Flexibility Value - Build Stage Success
quote: |
Ultimately, I think what really excited us about Pulumi was that we could use
languages that we already know for cloud infrastructure and we knew we could
@@ -148,6 +304,7 @@ case_studies:
link: /case-studies/mercedes-benz
name: Dinesh Ramamurthy
title: Engineering Manager, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America
+ stage: Multi-Cloud Platform Success - Scale Stage Achievement
quote: |
I needed a solution that cut across silos and gave our developers a tool they
could use themselves to provision infrastructure to suit their own immediate needs.
@@ -157,6 +314,7 @@ case_studies:
link: case-studies/credijusto/
name: Fernando Carlietti
title: Lead DevOps Engineer, Credijusto
+ stage: Developer Self-Service Achievement - Discover to Build Progression
quote: |
Once you use a familiar programming language to tackle a problem, you see that
you can do way more in less time. Pulumi was a natural choice based on the background
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