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title: "2018 Year at a Glance"
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authors: ["joe-duffy"]
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tags: ["pulumi-news"]
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meta_desc: "As we close out 2018, here are some of the exciting things at Pulumi. We've launched our open source community, with support for many major clouds."
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date: "2018-12-31"
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---
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As we close out 2018, and enter into
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a New Year, I was reflecting on our progress here at Pulumi this past year and wanted to share some thoughts.
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It’s been an incredible year and we are hugely thankful to our passionate community, customers, and
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partners.
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Here are some of the exciting things that happened:
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**Launching our open source
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community.** After being hard at work for a little over a year,
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[we launched our open source project](/blog/introducing-pulumi-a-cloud-development-platform/),
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with the aim of making it considerably easier and more enjoyable to create and operate
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cloud software. This was a major moment for us. We had previously only shown Pulumi to a few select friends,
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family, and private beta users, and the reception was beyond our wildest expectations. We got passionate +1’s
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from cloud engineers of all roles and responsibilities -- developers, infrastructure engineers, operators, and
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managers alike. The Pulumi community has since grown to thousands of users across hundreds of companies of all
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sizes spread across the globe. The community is now a warm, welcoming, and collaborative place with significant
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open source contributions and passionate community leaders emerging who are helping one another while also
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helping us to make Pulumi even better.
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**Support for major public, private, and hybrid clouds.** We launched with support for the three major public
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clouds, [AWS](/docs/clouds/aws/), [Azure](/docs/clouds/azure/), and
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[Google Cloud](/docs/clouds/gcp/), and have since added capabilities across all
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of them, including adding [serverless](/registry/packages/aws/how-to-guides/rest-api/),
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[containers](https://github.com/pulumi/examples/blob/master/aws-ts-containers/index.ts), and
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[infrastructure](https://github.com/pulumi/examples/blob/master/aws-js-webserver/index.js)
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productivity libraries -- it is here where we believe Pulumi’s unique approach of using general purpose languages truly
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shines. We immediately had a wave of inbound interest in applying the Pulumi approach to infrastructure as code in other
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areas, and quickly added other providers including OpenStack, VMWare vSphere, Alibaba Cloud, F5 BigIP, and more. In
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September, we unveiled [a native Kubernetes provider](/registry/packages/kubernetes/) with support for the
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entire API surface area across all versions, plus an operations tool, [KubeSpy](https://github.com/pulumi/kubespy) --
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both of which continue to lead to significant community growth. Many customers are loving that they can achieve a
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consistent engineering workflow across multi-cloud environments -- often spanning public, private, and/or hybrid clouds.
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**Launching our commercial SaaS product.** In October, [we launched our commercial SaaS
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product](/blog/building-a-future-of-cloud-engineering), with reasonable
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[pricing](/pricing/) so that teams of all sizes are able to get their code to the cloud
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productively, securely, and collaboratively. If Pulumi is like Git -- a local CLI and SDK -- then the Pulumi SaaS is
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like GitHub -- a hosted service to ensure you can use Pulumi in a team setting. In addition to the Team Edition, which
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is meant for the “Fortune 500,000,” we also launched the Enterprise Edition, for the Fortune 500. We already have
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multiple Fortune 500 customers moving into production with Pulumi, and expect this to be a significant area of future
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growth. Since launching, we’ve added support for more identity providers -- including GitHub, GitLab, and SSO/SAML (for
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Okta, ADFs, and others) -- as well as team management capabilities, such as RBAC, our GitHub App, GitHub Actions
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partnership, and more.
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**Closing our Series A funding.** Also in October, [we secured $15MM in additional
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funds](https://www.geekwire.com/2018/pulumi-raises-15m-series-funding-round-launches-multicloud-app-deployment-service/),
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which will enable us to scale to meet the incredible opportunity in front of us. The funds will ensure that our open
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source projects are constantly improving and achieving production quality; that our commercial product can meet the most
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rigorous business requirements, small or large; and that we can grow our organization in areas necessary to meet our
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customers’ needs. When we set out to make it 10x easier for teams to do cloud engineering, we saw many facets in need of
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attention, and these funds will help us take concrete steps towards realizing the vision.
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What an incredible year! It can still hardly believe it’s been just six months since launching.
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As we look to 2019, we plan to continue engaging with and growing our open source community, built on the same tenets of openness and collaboration -- the best part of
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my job. We have heard loud and clear that what customers need today are solutions, not just raw technologies, and we
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will continue to deliver commercial value in our Team and Enterprise Edition SaaS products that cloud engineering
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easier, more secure, and more collaborative.
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We are just getting started and we can’t wait to continue on the journey of
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reimagining cloud engineering together. Thank you for your passionate support -- and here’s to a wonderful 2019!
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— Joe
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