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I hope Pulumi eventually develops a "bare-metal" mode. I'm very much in favor of using a real programming language to set up systems[0], but I don't like to use

by catern 5y ago

I hope Pulumi eventually develops a "bare-metal" mode. I'm very much in favor of using a real programming language to set up systems[0], but I don't like to use cloud services beyond basic hosting. It would be nicer if Pulumi provided, as a library, code to launch and maintain self-hosted databases, proxies, etc, rather than just providing clients for cloud APIs. [0] http://catern.com/progsys.html http://catern.com/progsys.html

octopoc 5y ago
IIUC it already does this. Many of the libraries Pulumi exposes are not specific to any cloud platform. Examples: - Docker: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/docker/ https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/docker/ - Postgresql: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/cloud-providers/postgresql/ https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/cloud-providers/postgresql... - Keycloak: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/keycloak/ https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/keycloak/
- catern 5y ago
  I believe those are libraries for using these services (e.g., connecting to them and allocating resources inside them), not launching them and setting them up.
  - httgp 5y ago
    Folks generally use Ansible to launch and configure stuff; it is better suited for that kind of work.
    - nickcox 5y ago
      How so?
adevx 5y ago
A 100 times this. I would drop Ansible in heartbeat for Pulumi and have a strictly typed IaC base. Hope this use case gets more traction.