coding-pulumi

name: coding-pulumi description: Pulumi - code-first IaC (real languages instead of HCL), a situational leaf of coding-shape-iac. Reach for it only when a project already commits to it. Stub - fill later.

coding-pulumi

Stub. A situational leaf of coding-shape-iac. Fill with real conventions when a Pulumi project lands.

Pulumi expresses infrastructure in general-purpose languages (Python, TypeScript, Go) instead of HCL. It is not Kai's default - Terraform is the API-hitting leg of the trifecta. Reach for Pulumi only when an existing project already commits to it, or when programmatic infra logic genuinely needs a real language.

To fill later

• State backend choice (Pulumi Cloud vs self-managed S3) and the secrets-in-SSM equivalent.
• Language default (Python, matching the rest of the stack).
• The plan-before-apply discipline (pulumi preview before pulumi up).
• When Pulumi over Terraform, and how to keep them from overlapping.

Triggers

pulumi, pulumi up, pulumi preview, pulumi stack, code-first iac.

See also

• coding-shape-iac - the IaC umbrella.
• coding-terraform - the default over Pulumi for new work.