Seattle-based startup Pulumi has released a cloud development platform with the goal of assisting developers in creating and scaling apps for multi-cloud settings.
The goal of Pulumi is to make it much easier for developers to create applications for various cloud platforms.
Using containers, serverless functions, APIs, and infrastructure, the Seattle-based firm founded by former Microsoft and AWS executives has created a new, open source cloud development platform that gives developers a unified, standardised method for creating cloud-native apps.
Platform capabilities for Pulumi
There are two components to the Pulumi platform. With the help of well-known programming languages, Pulumi Core is a collection of open source tools and packages for building infrastructure and applications for any cloud. According to Duffy, Pulumi Service is a platform for moving code to any cloud, managing deployed Pulumi stacks, collaborating, and integrating into current workflows.
The platform gives developers and DevOps teams the tools they need to work together and create cutting-edge applications, and it leaves it up to policy and skill levels to determine whether a task belongs in the development or ops category, according to Duffy.
Pulumi’s initial client was Learning Machine, a blockchain-based provider of digital credentials and identities. For each new cloud environment they supported last summer, a Learning Machine client’s requirements virtually required a rewrite of thousands of lines of code. Instead, according to Dan Hughes, COO at Learning Machine, the company discarded 25,000 lines of code with a one-time port to the Pulumi cloud programming paradigm.
Pulumi ancestry
Duffy oversaw the drive to open source the.NET platform throughout his twelve years at Microsoft, all of which were devoted to developer tools. Rudder was a Microsoft technical visionary who held a number of executive technical positions and was once dubbed “Baby Bill” and a potential Bill Gates heir apparent.
Also, Rudder oversaw Microsoft’s server and tools division as well as the experimental Midori project to develop an operating system other than Windows. The group also hired Luke Hoban, a CTO from Amazon. They were familiar with Hoban because of his work on two of Microsoft’s most popular open source projects, Visual Studio Code and TypeScript, while he was employed there. Donna Malayeri, a former senior Microsoft employee, is also a member of the 13-person team.
