diff --git a/content/cloud-engineering/_index.md b/content/cloud-engineering/_index.md index ffe25bf4e2d9..8fb236f22efc 100644 --- a/content/cloud-engineering/_index.md +++ b/content/cloud-engineering/_index.md @@ -1,15 +1,66 @@ --- 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. 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