meta_desc: Apply software engineering practices and tools across infrastructure, development, and compliance teams to tame the complexity of modern cloud applications.
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.
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.
- title: Modern Application Development Experience
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.
- title: Share and Reuse Best Practices
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.
deploy:
title: Deploy
description: |
Cloud engineers deliver both infrastructure and application code through a unified process that increases efficiency and quality.
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.
- title: Test Frameworks for Infrastructure
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.
- title: Advanced Deployment Automation
description: |
Orchestrate automated deployments by programming them within application code. This enables programmatically deploying infrastructure with APIs instead of
using a CLI-driven workflow.
- title: End-to-End Change History
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.
manage:
title: Manage
description: |
Cloud engineers manage their cloud infrastructure and applications with Policy-as-Code, access controls, and auditing histories.
items:
- title: Policy-as-Code
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.
- title: Auditing and Access Controls
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.
- title: Team-wide Visibility
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.
benefits:
title: Benefits of<br/>Cloud Engineering
items:
- title: Unlock the potential of the modern cloud
icon: lock
icon_color: purple
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.
- title: Increase innovation velocity and agility
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.
- title: Decrease infrastructure risks
icon: alert
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.
- title: Foster closer collaboration
icon: collab
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.
use_cases:
title: Use cases
description: Learn more about the solutions that are enabled by cloud engineering.
cta_text: See Solutions
items:
- Shared services platforms
- Greenfield modern applications
- AI and ML workloads
- On-premises to cloud migration
- Migrate from an existing tool
case_studies:
title: Case studies
items:
- company: snowflake
link: /case-studies/snowflake
name: Jonas-Taha El Sesiy
title: Senior Software Engineer
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
solve for future use cases that we hadn’t even thought of yet - all because
the languages and tools are general-purpose.
- company: mercedes-benz-rdna
link: /case-studies/mercedes-benz
name: Dinesh Ramamurthy
title: Engineering Manager, Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America
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.
The way Pulumi solves the multi-cloud problem is exactly what I was looking for.
Pulumi improved our time-to-market by removing cloud infrastructure as a roadblock to business innovation. Our developers rely on Pulumi’s Universal Infrastructure as Code and software engineering approach to build modern cloud applications, including the underlying infrastructure, using programming languages they understand. This has resulted in faster software delivery, closer collaboration and higher-quality deployments. Every developer is now empowered to move faster and spend more time on developing things that matter to our customers, which drives a competitive advantage for Fenergo.
