Applications built on AWS Lambda auto-scale only cost you when running, meaning you can reduce managing and build more as control and running the apps will cost less. Frameworks with no server can add more workflows and serverless use cases to them as they are entirely expandable by more than one thousand plugins.

Difference between Pulumi and Frameworks

The command-line tool helps you program easily with Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda and Azure Functions by removing the everyday development experiences of the cloud providers. The framework depends on templating solutions or APIs of the cloud provider for management or provisioning besides its functions. The difference between a serverless framework and Pulumi is that in Pulumi, you write complete applications, which may include virtual machines, containers, cloud services or databases. Some parts of this application may be serverless functions. Pulumi uses a code approach that uses infrastructure to utilize, manage and update its resources.

Pulumi perceives the complete program as a program that is cloud-native, whereas the framework with no server considers each program as an entity that can be customized. Most solutions in these frameworks may need to bring in other solutions, such as the AWS CloudFormation. The user can make changes in several systems, leading to a stack of bash script problems you were initially looking to solve.

What is Pulumi?

Pulumi is a platform that uses infrastructure as code to influence existing programming languages, such as Java, Python and TypeScript and markup languages, such as YAML and their ecosystem to connect with cloud resources. To provide you with a fast way of updating, managing and provisioning infrastructures of the cloud, it will need a hosted service, libraries and runtime working together.

Pulumi programs explain how you should compose your cloud infrastructure. Yu will need to assign resource objects with properties that match the infrastructure’s desired state to state a new infrastructure into a program. The properties are used to take care of any dependencies needed and can be carried out of the stack if necessary.

A pulumi program is carried out by a host language that programs a stack’s infrastructure desired state. A deployment engine figures out what needs to be made, changed or removed by comparing the desired state of infrastructure with the current state of the stack.

This deployment engine uses resource providers that include Azure and AWS to run individual resources. In contrast, the deployment engine modifies that infrastructures’ state with resource information that is provisioned in addition to other awaiting operations.

If you want to use Pulumi in your new projects, there is a user guide that provides you with tools and techniques that you may use to help you move from other infrastructures to Pulumi.

The methods vary from coexisting with the infrastructure to adopting or converting infrastructure that exists as programming projects. The three concepts for adopting Pulumi are coexistence, which lets you provide new infrastructure alongside existing ones; importing, which enables you to embrace the control of existing infrastructure into a new program; and conversion, which lets you convert existing infrastructure to Pulumi.