Pulumi
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12recommend
2warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“you don't have to resort to imperative protobuf slinging”
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“The migration to Pulumi was refreshingly painless.”
switched from Terraform CDKon “PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out”
“Pulumi and Pyinfra already provide user-friendly primitives and idempotent(ish) APIs that work much better than YAML”
“IMO pulumi is a huge gain of productivity when you know what you're doing.”
Sole DevOps for a long time, now bigger teamswitched from Terraformon “Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or re…”
Caveats and dissent
“I did try Pulumi a while back, but the compatibility with Terraform modules was not great”
Often compared with
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Threads where it came up
- Almost Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years 4 mentions
- Stelvio: Ship Python to AWS 3 mentions
- The future of Terraform CDK 3 mentions
- PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026) 2 mentions
- Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS 2 mentions
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All comments 37
“you don't have to resort to imperative protobuf slinging”
“Terragrunt, Pulumi, Kubernetes”
“Pulumi IaC”
“as well as pulumi for IaC”
“+100 to pulumi, I love it with TypeScript”
“The migration to Pulumi was refreshingly painless.”
“Pulumi and Pyinfra already provide user-friendly primitives and idempotent(ish) APIs that work much better than YAML”
“Infra/Cloud: AWS, GCP, Pulumi, Docker, GitHub Actions, Ansible”
“Tech Stack: Rust, TypeScript, Python, Tauri, Next.js, Docker, Pulumi, Terraform.”
It’s the IT career requirement to keep abreast of everything in tech while being cursed to know most of it is various forms of unnecessary for the supermajority of IT/Enterprise use cases. A few highlights: * Most infrastructure does not need Kubernetes. Your ERP doesn’t need Helm charts, your internal Confluence doesn’t need HA K8s clusters, your Grafana is cheaper on ECS than GKE, and your zScaler estate flatly doe
“Our tech stack is React, Typescript, AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, Clickhouse and Turbopuffer.”
“IMO pulumi is a huge gain of productivity when you know what you're doing.”
“CDKs, Terraform, Pulumi all have their use cases and trade offs.”
“We used it at my last startup and I loved it but im a dev not devops guy”
“while Pulumi and Cue look neat”
“Platforms: GCP, Kubernetes, Temporal, Pulumi”
“I use Pulumi for work”
“Puluni does have a good track record of keeping up with AWS.”
“using it mainly for state management and as an escape hatch”
“trust in the underlying API of the Pulumi resources”
“Stelvio uses Pulumi under the hood.”
“Both AWS CDK [1] and Pulumi [2] already support Python and work great”
“I wrote up how-to with a Pulumi infra-as-code template”
“AWS, GCP, Pulumi, Docker, GitHub Actions, Ansible”
“from OpenTofu, Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kubernetes, to Ansible”
“IaC (Pulumi)”
“Pulumi is pretty cool”
“Pulumi is the only alternative for internal DSLs for IaaC”
“I did try Pulumi a while back, but the compatibility with Terraform modules was not great”
“I enjoy it, but I also think my platform team has set it up in the best possible way.”
“Sounds like Pulumi for workflows.”
“Stack: Typescript, React, Next.js, Hasura, Trigger.dev, AWS, Pulumi”
“Pulumi or CDK are for sure more powerful (and great tools)”
“The feature that makes me love pulumi is crd2pulumi”
“Ever tried Pulumi?”
“I like pulumi (iff typescript) and cdk8s.”
“Stack: Typescript, React, Next.js, Hasura, Trigger.dev, AWS, Pulumi”