Pulumi is just another Infrastructure as Code tool, yet it’s different from what I’ve seen before. It offers some interesting concepts like usage of the generic purpose programming languages, state tracking, etc. I had some time recently so I decided to play around with it. Here I want to share some thoughts about this tool. In my opinion this is the first IaC tool, which was created for the “Dev” side of “DevOps”....
Image source I’ve been using Kubernetes for almost a year and want to share some takeaways and things I’ve learned about it so far. Some context. We had a team of two engineers working not only on Kubernetes but on all infrastructure-related topics. Our main application was a Python monolith, plus a few satellite-services. Our infrastructure was dynamic due to autoscaling, and a lot of things were optimized for costs (check out my article about running Kubernetes on AWS Spot instances)....