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Infrastructure CI/CD	Learn how Pulumi can help you automate the testing, provisioning, and management of infrastructure through a software delivery pipeline.	page	solutions-use-case	title image description Shifting left infrastructure /images/solutions/git-ops/git-ops-main-diagram.svg Infrastructure CI/CD (aka Infrastructure Shift Left or GitOps) is the process of automating the testing, provisioning, and management of infrastructure through a software delivery pipeline. This starts with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which is provisioning and managing infrastructure through definition files (e.g. templates or code) and stored in version control systems. IaC provides automation to provision infrastructure and increases delivery velocity by removing the risk of human errors. Infrastructure CI/CD further automates infrastructure provisioning and management by building the entire IaC process into a CI/CD pipeline. All infrastructure updates run through a standard set of unit and integration tests, allowing reduced errors, greater security, and increased delivery velocity.	title benefits help Why Infrastructure CI/CD? title items Benefits title icon icon_color description Increase release velocity code yellow Application changes with their corresponding infrastructure changes can all share one automated pipeline, reducing complexity and increasing release velocity. title icon icon_color description Increase reliability global yellow Every infrastructure update is run through a standard set of unit and integration tests, identifying and addressing bugs earlier and increasing reliability. title icon icon_color description Reduce mean time to resolution puzzle yellow Small code changes are encouraged which reduces the scale of infrastructure changes and isolates faults, which reduces the mean time to resolution. title items How Pulumi helps title icon icon_color description Unified delivery pipeline rocketship salmon Pulumi allows the same programming languages used for application code to be used for infrastructure. This allows teams to leverage the same testing frameworks and same delivery process for both. title icon icon_color description Shareable infrastructure components gear salmon Pulumi provides a shared way for teams to collaborate with each other on infrastructure through modular and reusable components that can easily be built and shared across the entire organization. title icon icon_color description Higher order automation eye salmon You can increase automation across the entire lifecycle of your cloud infrastructure. You can program logic that orchestrates complex workflows during infrastructure provisioning instead of needing to use Bash scripts or glue code. In addition to its CLI, Pulumi provides the Automation API, a programmatic interface for IaC, so you can build applications that dynamically manage infrastructure.	title items GitOps Workflow Reference Architecture title image content 1. Pick an execution platform /images/solutions/git-ops/git-ops-diagram-one.svg There are many methods by which you can execute a Pulumi program. You need to pick a platform from which Pulumi programs will execute. title image content 2. Define the environment/branching strategy /images/solutions/git-ops/git-ops-diagram-two.svg Define whether you want one git repo to represent your entire infrastructure or whether you want a stack per branch. The advantage of the former is simplicity while the advantage of the latter is more granularity in control over stack deployments. title image content 3. Build the pipelines /images/solutions/git-ops/git-ops-diagram-three.svg Based on the branching strategy you chose, you can configure a pipeline per stack or a single pipeline that chooses stacks based on deployment flags. title image content 4. Incorporate software development best practices /images/solutions/git-ops/git-ops-diagram-four.svg Legacy IaC tools can run in CI/CD, however with Pulumi, you can incorporate in all the best practice software development practices such as testing. You can design what you want to test in terms of quality issues, deployment issues, and/or code quality checks. title image content 5. Define higher-level workflows /images/solutions/git-ops/git-ops-diagram-five.svg With Automation API, you can build higher-order orchestration type workflows across all your infrastructure deployments. You can build in serial or branching dependencies that are connected together via StackReferences.	title logos Organizations practicing infrastructure CI/CD with Pulumi name link sans /case-studies/sans-institute name link skai /blog/kenshoo-migrates-to-aws-with-pulumi name link atlassian /case-studies/atlassian name link panther-labs /case-studies/panther-labs name link whylabs /case-studies/whylabs	title get_started Getting started title description cta_text Talk with solution engineering Schedule some time with our solution engineering team, and we will help you automate your entire infrastructure provisioning and management through a CI/CD pipeline. Schedule now