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title: "2021 End of Year Review"
date: 2021-12-31T10:26:47-06:00
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meta_desc: Review the biggest news and information from Pulumi for 2021.
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authors:
    - laura-santamaria
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    - pulumi-news
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It’s the end of the 2021 calendar year here at Pulumi, and like everyone, we’re counting down until 2022 while looking back at our year. We’ve had a very exciting year! In case you missed anything from our past year, here’s a rundown of the top stories from Pulumi:

### January

Pulumi became [SOC2 certified](/blog/pulumis-soc-2-milestone/) in early January 2021.

### February

We brought support for all four official Pulumi languages to [EKS](/blog/create-eks-clusters-in-your-favorite-language/).

We released [Python support](/blog/automation-api-python/) for our powerful Automation API.

### March

We immediately followed up with releasing [C# support](/blog/automation-api-dotnet) for the Automation API.

The Azure Native provider, which communicates directly with the Azure resource model, [went GA](/blog/full-coverage-of-azure-resources-with-azure-native/) (general availability) after a period of being in beta.

### April

We had a bit of fun on April Fool’s Day with [Pulumi Interstellar](/blog/pulumi-interstellar/) (if you don’t understand April Fool’s Day because it’s not something you have in your country, please know this is a joke for fun).

The biggest news for April, though, was our PulumiUP event, where we showcased new releases for the Pulumi platform. Here are the big announcements:

* [Pulumi 3.0](/blog/pulumi-3-0/): Automation API, native Providers, Packages and Components, improved SDKs for Python and Go, and new integrations and features.
* [Pulumi Packages and multi-language Components](/blog/pulumiup-pulumi-packages-multi-language-components/)
* The [Google Cloud Native Provider](/blog/pulumiup-google-native-provider/)

### May

We took a bit of a break in May from the blog to be heads down working on the next features after the excitement of PulumiUP. We did talk a bit about [integration with App Runner](/blog/deploy-applications-with-aws-app-runner/), though!

### June

We started posting our [release notes as regular updates](/blog/pulumi-release-notes-m57/) to the blog.

We took some time to [dive into testing infrastructure](/blog/infrastructure-testing-concepts/) in one of our many educational articles.

We worked with the community for a [hackathon on multi-language components](/blog/multi-lang-hackathon/).

We announced Pulumi Team Edition with usage-based pricing and a free tier to get you started and Pulumi Enterprise Edition with access control and more on the same [usage-based pricing system](/blog/announcing-new-usage-based-pricing-for-your-whole-team/).

### July

July was a month of education, with articles on Cloud Engineering as a concept, more on testing, and a new series on Kubernetes:

* [Cloud Enginering](/blog/what-exactly-is-cloud-engineering/)
* [Testing](/blog/testing-in-practice/)
* [Kubernetes](/blog/kubernetes-fundamentals-part-one/)

### August

We kicked off an entire series on Azure developers for this month. [Start here](/blog/top-5-things-for-azure-devs-intro/).

### September

September saw preparations for Cloud Engineering Summit, with blog posts talking about the upcoming event. Still, we had time for more features!

We announced a public preview of a [Helm Release resource](/blog/full-access-to-helm-features-through-new-helm-release-resource-for-kubernetes/).

We launched a [Provider for Snowflake](/blog/snowflake-provider-launch/).

We shipped the [public release of the Pulumi REST API](/blog/pulumi-rest-api/), which had been a behind-the-scenes powerhouse.

We started supporting AWS Lambdas on [Gravitron2 processors](/blog/aws-lambda-functions-powered-by-graviton2/).

We opened up our [roadmap to the public](/blog/relaunching-pulumis-public-roadmap/) to vote on and discuss upcoming projects.

And finally, just squeezing into the end of September, we launched the [public preview of the AWS Native Provider](/blog/announcing-aws-native/), powered by AWS's Cloud Control API, so you can use Pulumi to work directly with the AWS resource model.

### October

Cloud Engineering Summit was our biggest event of the year, and you can enjoy all of the sessions over on [PulumiTV](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyy8Vx2ZoWlodkVaCTO3Y-3vya68J2c6y). That being said, we still had a lot to share on the blog.

We introduced [resource methods for Pulumi Packages](/blog/resource-methods-for-pulumi-packages/).

We shipped the [1.0 release of the Kubernetes Operator](/blog/pulumi-kubernetes-operator-1-0/).

We delivered the [Pulumi Registry](/blog/introducing-pulumi-registry/).

### November

We started providing same-day support for [Azure Container Apps](/blog/azure-container-apps/).

We reworked [functions to accept outputs](/blog/functions-accept-outputs/).

### December

We started some more educational series:

* [Cloud Systems](/blog/cloud-systems-part-one/)
* [Organizational Patterns](/blog/organizational-patterns-infra-repo/)
* [GitOps with the Pulumi Operator](/blog/improving-gitops-with-pulumi-operator/)

### … and Beyond

As we look forward to 2022, we’re not done yet! We’ve done a lot of things in 2021, and we’re on course to do a lot more in the next year. I’m excited that we’re all along for the ride, and we can’t wait to share more features and launches with you. Thanks for being with us, and here’s to 2022.

By the way, did you know [we’re hiring](/careers)?