Comparing Terraform and Pulumi

Updated on July 19, 2022

By @anegrette

About the Talk

In DevOps, the gold standard for building a deployment platform is using Infrastructure as Code and a GitOps workflow, and there are a couple of popular tools that can enable you and your team to create Infrastructure as Code files. In this talk, Amy will compare and contrast Terraform and Pulumi, she will demonstrate how to create a DigitalOcean Webserver with Terraform and then Pulumi, and finally she will talk through the benefits and drawbacks of each project.

What You’ll Learn

Deciding on an IaC tool
Benefits and drawbacks of how Terraform and Pulumi approach Infrastructure as Code
How to create a DigitalOcean Webserver with Terraform and Pulumi

This Talk Is Designed For

DevOps Engineers, Platform Engineers and Software Engineers that are responsible for maintaining your company’s deployment platform
CTOs who must decide on an IaC tool

Prerequisites

None

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EricaHeide

July 27, 2022

Only a few hours left. yay

andres leon rangel

March 14, 2024

Lots of debugging. My suggestion is to use the docker container terraform and pulumi images in a clean workspace to showcase the executions. There was a lot of troubleshooting and time wasted doing re-runs and trying to login to the pulumi dashboard after failure to refresh auth tokens. thanks though