Today we are going to talk with Lee Briggs from Pulumi. Pulumi allows you to create modern Infrastructure as Code, using any cloud using familiar programming languages and tools.

**The BEST part is that Pulumi is 100% open source.

Guest Details**

Lee Briggs Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/briggsl/

General Questions What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Why would you want to adopt IaC?

• Who made changes to the code
• Ticket that was linked
• Collaboration
• Documentation

Does IaC document your infrastructure?

Does IaC allow for solid Dev Ops?

Pulumi **What is Pulumi?

What makes Pulumi different than**

• Serverless Framework - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/serverless/
• Cloud Formation - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/cloud_templates/
• Terraform - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/terraform/
• Arm

Will IaC take longer?

• Should it be used for an MVP?
• How large of a team would you have before using IaC?
• Is it worth the time to set up if it is just something quick.

Is Pulumi good for single code shops that know only a single language?

• Speed to market is easier.
• No need to learn markup language

How big is the learning curve of IaC?

• Serverless is YAML

Pulumi support “ecosystems”

• NodeJS
• Go
• .Net

Purrfect Picks Lee Great examples

https://github.com/pulumi/examples

https://www.pulumi.com/resources/introduction-to-pulumi?utm_source=codingcat

Queen’s Gambit

Alex FUN Stuff

https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

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