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The Pulumi cloud offering provides state management. With it, you can bring up some infrastructure on machine A and tear it down on another machine. Without t
by spooneybarger 6y ago
The Pulumi cloud offering provides state management.
With it, you can bring up some infrastructure on machine A and tear it down on another machine.
Without the service, you can only tear down on the same machine you brought it up. Ditto for adding to existing infrastructure.
You don't need their service but you have to solve problems like knowing what is running, replicating the needed state etc.
The service is very nice and makes it easy to know what is running, how long it has been running, who created it etc- across clouds. But, it is not strictly needed. As an individual user, you could get away without using. For a team, it fills a very vital gap.
- bogomipz 6y agoIs the difference the same as using Terraform Cloud vs just keeping your state in your own S3 bucket then?
- pm90 6y agoThis seems like a huge con. Terraform at least allows you to store state yourself if you want to on multiple backends. With Pulumi you have to pay to store state, and you have to store it with Pulumi Inc. ? Why?
- Chickenosaurus 6y agoPulumi also allows storing state yourself in different backends [1]. The SaaS is a convenience. [1] https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/ https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/