What is Pulumi?
An infrastructure as code tool using general-purpose programming languages instead of DSLs.
Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code tool that lets you define infrastructure using real programming languages — TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java — instead of DSLs like HCL (Terraform). This means you get loops, conditions, functions, testing, and IDE support for free. Pulumi state can be stored in Pulumi Cloud or a self-managed backend. It supports the same cloud providers as Terraform. The tradeoff: more power but also more complexity.
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