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Pulumi announced Pulumi IDP, a new internal developer platform that accelerates cloud infrastructure delivery for organizations at any scale.

Built on Pulumi’s flagship open source IaC platform, Pulumi IDP provides a fast, secure way for engineering teams to go from idea to cloud in minutes, not months.

Driven by the need to ship cloud innovation faster, reduce developer burden, and scale securely, many Pulumi customers have already built their own IDPs using Pulumi’s IaC platform. Pulumi IDP distills lessons from hundreds of these real-world implementations into a complete solution that helps organizations accelerate software delivery while embedding security and governance by design.

Pulumi IDP meets platform teams where they already are – the cloud infrastructure – and extends from there to facilitate developer self-service and speed.

Platform teams publish patterns as Component, Template, and Policy building blocks to Pulumi IDP using a private organization registry. These building blocks encapsulate reusable infrastructure best practices written in any language – TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, or YAML – and form blueprints for creating new projects such as applications, microservices, or clusters, with standard configurations. Security, compliance, cost, and operational rules are then enforced for new and existing infrastructure. The registry includes built-in documentation, search, semantic versioning, and usage tracking to make it easy to discover and share patterns.

Developers, data scientists, and other end users can access Pulumi IDP through their preferred interface to provision and manage cloud applications and infrastructure using these building blocks. They can do so using a complete no-code user interface, low-code YAML-based CI/CD pipelines, IaC directly in their preferred language, or a REST API with full extensibility. End users can organize their projects into Services, which are logical containers of cloud infrastructure, configuration, secrets, documentation, and observability dashboards. Examples of services include a web application, a microservice, a Jupyter notebook, or a data pipeline.

Pulumi IDP works for setting up golden paths and using them as well as day-two and beyond operations. This includes drift and policy detection and remediation, auditing of outdated components and templates, and change management when rolling out updated versions. Approval workflows enable teams to delegate and maintain guardrails. A new visual import tool helps teams bring existing unmanaged cloud infrastructure under the management of Pulumi with just a few clicks. Pulumi IDP features a new advanced IAM system to enable least-privilege access, extending Pulumi’s existing security foundation with custom roles and permissions, fine-grained access controls, and integration with SAML/SSO identity providers.

Pulumi IDP is available as a managed SaaS solution or self-hosted for advanced compliance needs. It integrates deeply with Pulumi’s existing enterprise capabilities, including Pulumi Copilot for AI-driven infrastructure management, Pulumi Deployments for workflow automation, Pulumi CrossGuard for policies, and a common REST API and data model for extensibility.

“CTOs, CIOs, and engineering leaders tell us that the pace of innovation is faster than ever,” said Joe Duffy, co-founder and CEO of Pulumi. “To succeed, developers must move fast – without breaking things. Pulumi IDP is the cloud infrastructure platform modern teams have been asking for: infrastructure-first, multi-cloud, immensely powerful and flexible, with built-in security and full visibility and controls. It turns the cloud into a competitive advantage.”

Pulumi IDP is now available in public preview and is free for Pulumi customers and community members to use. General availability and enterprise pricing will follow later this year.