3 years ago

Category: Software, Microsoft, Kubernetes, Infrastructure, firewall, automation, yaml, ansible, puppet

What founder and CEO Joe Duffy, calls a “cloud engineering platform” is an attempt to “distill a lot of the lessons learned from helping developers build modern cloud applications, helping infrastructure teams increasingly apply engineering disciplines to the way they’re doing infrastructure and help the entire team really ship faster with confidence.” People are realizing the only way to keep up with the pace of the modern cloud and the level of innovation is to empower developers to be more self serve but also learn from the past decades in software engineering and apply that to the way we’re doing infrastructure.”

Infrastructure still requires a specific discipline, Fitzhugh noted, because their concerns are integration, scale, abstraction and how to interact with and operate cloud services, but much of that can be automated.

You can link with Pulumi and manage your infrastructure, and still get all the power of infrastructure as code, but not have to have this clunky CLI-based interface that you drive programmatically.

Part of the whole cloud engineering platform vision is that we’re going to bring more into the fold of Pulumi,.