Pulumi, the infrastructure as code (IaC) leader, is announcing Pulumi IDP, an internal developer platform designed to help enterprises accelerate their cloud infrastructure and software delivery at scale. Bringing in the real-world experiences of customers who have already built their own IDPs using Pulumi’s IaC platform, Pulumi IDP forwards a complete solution that enhances the developer workflow with security and governance embedded by design.
Pulumi IDP was born from the need to ship cloud innovation faster, reduce developers’ burdens, and scale securely, according to the company. Eliminating trade-offs often required by either building something custom or adopting rigid, top-down solutions, Pulumi IDP meets developers where they already are in their cloud infrastructures while cultivating self-service and speed.
“CTOs, CIOs, and engineering leaders tell us that the pace of innovation is faster than ever,” said Joe Duffy, co-founder and CEO of Pulumi. “To succeed, developers must move fast—without breaking things. Pulumi IDP is the cloud infrastructure platform modern teams have been asking for: infrastructure-first, multi-cloud, immensely powerful and flexible, with built-in security and full visibility and controls. It turns the cloud into a competitive advantage.”
Pulumi IDP adheres to three main principles:
- Codify and enforce organizational best practices: Through a private registry, platform teams publish patterns as Component, Template, and Policy building blocks to Pulumi IDP. These building blocks encapsulate reusable infrastructure best practices written in any language, which can be formed as blueprints to create new projects with a standard configuration style. Rules regarding security, compliance, cost, and operations are enforced on the new and existing infrastructures.
- Enable flexible developer self-service with guardrails: Pulumi IDP can be accessed through users’ preferred interfaces to provision and manage cloud applications and infrastructure. This is available through no-code user interface, low-code YAML-based CI/CD pipelines, IaC directly in their preferred language, or a REST API with full extensibility.
- Secure and scale day-two operations and beyond: Teams can set up golden paths as well as day-two and beyond operations, including drift and policy detection and remediation, auditing of outdated components and templates, and change management when rolling out updated versions. Approval workflows allow teams to delegate and maintain guardrails, paired with a visual import tool for fast cloud infrastructure migration and an advanced IAM system to enable least-privilege access.
“Docker makes software supply chains more secure by standardizing build, packaging, and shipping containerized applications—core to any modern internal developer platform. Pulumi complements this by enabling platform teams to define secure, reusable infrastructure patterns,” said Justin Cormack, CTO at Docker. “Golden paths are incredibly important to our customers, and we’re excited that Pulumi makes it easier to create and adopt them. Together, Docker and Pulumi help teams streamline developer workflows and accelerate delivery from code to cloud.”
“We’ve spent a lot of time building our internal developer platform,” said James Forcier, staff software engineer at CLEAR. “We moved from a lower-level Terraform and HCL-based interface to Pulumi, letting us use a custom, higher-level, and much simpler-to-use YAML schema we’ve defined. We've made cloud infrastructure really easy to use for our developers.”
Pulumi IDP is available as a managed SaaS solution or self-hosted to suit more advanced compliance needs. The solution deeply integrates with other Pulumi capabilities, such as Pulumi Copilot for AI-driven infrastructure management, Pulumi Deployments for workflow automation, Pulumi CrossGuard for policies, and a common REST API and data model for extensibility.
To learn more about Pulumi IDP, please visit https://www.pulumi.com/.