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2 | | -layout: post |
3 | | -title: 'Program the Cloud with 12 Pulumi Pearls' |
4 | | -date: 2018-07-25 12:00:00.000000000 -07:00 |
5 | | -categories: [Pulumi] |
6 | | -tags: [Pulumi, AWS, Containers, Serverless] |
7 | | -status: publish |
8 | | -type: post |
9 | | -published: true |
10 | | -author: |
11 | | - display_name: joeduffy |
12 | | - first_name: Joe |
13 | | - last_name: Duffy |
14 | | - email: joeduffy@acm.org |
15 | | ---- |
16 | | - |
17 | | -In this post, we'll look at 12 "pearls" -- bite-sized code snippets -- that demonstrate some fun ways you can program the cloud using Pulumi. In my introductory post, I mentioned [a few of my "favorite things"]( http://joeduffyblog.com/2018/06/18/hello-pulumi/#my-favorite-things). Now let's dive into a few specifics, from multi-cloud to cloud-specific, spanning containers, serverless, and infrastructure, and generally highlighting why using real languages is so empowering for cloud scenarios. Since Pulumi lets you do infrastructure-as-code from the lowest-level to the highest, we will cover a lot of interesting ground in short order. |
18 | | - |
19 | | -If you want to follow along and try some of this out, Pulumi is [open source on GitHub](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi), free to download and use from https://pulumi.io, and [the tour](https://pulumi.io/tour) will acquaint you with the CLI. Most of the examples are directly runnable and available in [our examples repo](https://github.com/pulumi/examples), and are just a `pulumi up` away, unlike other approaches that require you to point-and-click around in your cloud's console, and/or author reams of yucky YAML. And you get to use real languages! |
20 | | - |
21 | | -Here is an index of the pearls in case you want to dive straight into one in particular: |
22 | | - |
23 | | -[**Infrastructure**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-infra): |
24 | | - |
25 | | -1. [Declare cloud infra using a real language (with loops!)](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-1) |
26 | | -2. [Make a reusable component out of your cloud infra](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-2) |
27 | | - |
28 | | -[**Serverless**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-serverless): |
29 | | - |
30 | | -3. [Go serverless without the YAML](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-3) |
31 | | -4. [Capture state in your serverless funcs, like real lambdas](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-4) |
32 | | -5. [Simple serverless cron jobs](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-5) |
33 | | -6. [Run Express-like serverless SPAs and REST APIs at near zero cost](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-6) |
34 | | - |
35 | | -[**Containers**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-containers): |
36 | | - |
37 | | -7. [Deploy production containers without the fuss](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-7) |
38 | | -8. [Use containers without Dockerfiles](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-8) |
39 | | -9. [Invoke a long-running container as a task](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-9) |
40 | | - |
41 | | -[**General Tips and Tricks**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-tips): |
42 | | - |
43 | | -10. [Use code to avoid hard-coding config](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-10) |
44 | | -11. [Use config to enable multi-instantiation and code reuse](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-11) |
45 | | -12. [Give your components runtime APIs](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-12) |
46 | | - |
47 | | -Even if you're uninterested in low-level infrastructure, it can be fun to work through these examples; it's "turtles all the way down" with Pulumi and doing so can help understand how the system works. And similarly, it can be fun to see the high-level scenarios these building blocks facilitate, even if you just want to stand up containers and functions. |
48 | | - |
49 | | -And with that, let's dive in. |
50 | | - |
| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +layout: post |
| 3 | +title: 'Program the Cloud with 12 Pulumi Pearls' |
| 4 | +date: 2018-07-25 12:00:00.000000000 -07:00 |
| 5 | +categories: [Pulumi] |
| 6 | +tags: [Pulumi, AWS, Containers, Serverless] |
| 7 | +status: publish |
| 8 | +type: post |
| 9 | +published: true |
| 10 | +author: |
| 11 | + display_name: joeduffy |
| 12 | + first_name: Joe |
| 13 | + last_name: Duffy |
| 14 | + email: joeduffy@acm.org |
| 15 | +--- |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +In this post, we'll look at 12 "pearls" -- bite-sized code snippets -- that demonstrate some fun ways you can program the cloud using Pulumi. In my introductory post, I mentioned [a few of my "favorite things"]( http://joeduffyblog.com/2018/06/18/hello-pulumi/#my-favorite-things). Now let's dive into a few specifics, from multi-cloud to cloud-specific, spanning containers, serverless, and infrastructure, and generally highlighting why using real languages is so empowering for cloud scenarios. Since Pulumi lets you do infrastructure-as-code from the lowest-level to the highest, we will cover a lot of interesting ground in short order. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +If you want to follow along and try some of this out, Pulumi is [open source on GitHub](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi), free to download and use from https://pulumi.io, and [the tour](https://pulumi.io/tour) will acquaint you with the CLI. Most of the examples are directly runnable and available in [our examples repo](https://github.com/pulumi/examples), and are just a `pulumi up` away, unlike other approaches that require you to point-and-click around in your cloud's console, and/or author reams of yucky YAML. And you get to use real languages! |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +Here is an index of the pearls in case you want to dive straight into one in particular: |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +[**Infrastructure**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-infra): |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +1. [Declare cloud infra using a real language (with loops!)](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-1) |
| 26 | +2. [Make a reusable component out of your cloud infra](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-2) |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +[**Serverless**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-serverless): |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +3. [Go serverless without the YAML](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-3) |
| 31 | +4. [Capture state in your serverless funcs, like real lambdas](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-4) |
| 32 | +5. [Simple serverless cron jobs](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-5) |
| 33 | +6. [Run Express-like serverless SPAs and REST APIs at near zero cost](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-6) |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +[**Containers**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-containers): |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +7. [Deploy production containers without the fuss](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-7) |
| 38 | +8. [Use containers without Dockerfiles](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-8) |
| 39 | +9. [Invoke a long-running container as a task](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-9) |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +[**General Tips and Tricks**](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearls-tips): |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +10. [Use code to avoid hard-coding config](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-10) |
| 44 | +11. [Use config to enable multi-instantiation and code reuse](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-11) |
| 45 | +12. [Give your components runtime APIs](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls#pearl-12) |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +Even if you're uninterested in low-level infrastructure, it can be fun to work through these examples; it's "turtles all the way down" with Pulumi and doing so can help understand how the system works. And similarly, it can be fun to see the high-level scenarios these building blocks facilitate, even if you just want to stand up containers and functions. |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | +And with that, let's dive in. |
| 50 | + |
51 | 51 | To continue reading, [head on over to the Pulumi blog](https://blog.pulumi.com/program-the-cloud-with-12-pulumi-pearls)... |
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