Infrastructure as Software

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Argues that infrastructure should be written in real languages and shows Pulumi powering that: write infrastructure in TypeScript Python DotNet or Go, using IDE autocomplete, loops, classes and packaged components. Demonstrations create an S3 bucket, auto-named resources, a reusable webserver component that spawns many EC2s, a one-line Crosswalk VPC in one line, an API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB build and live test, mocked cloud responses for fast tests, and built-in secrets and CI-friendly CLI with state previews and safe updates.

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" chapters (12)

1. 0:00Introduction to Pulumi
2. 0:32Levels of cloud transition
3. 2:42Infrastructure as software
4. 4:56Pulumi layers and abstraction
5. 6:35Programming constructs and orchestration
6. 10:36Test-driven infrastructure
7. 11:58Secrets management and internals
8. 14:28Hands-on demo: Getting started
9. 22:51Component refactoring
10. 32:10Secrets in practice
11. 38:22Serverless and abstraction demo
12. 41:52Policy-based testing

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