terraform VS Pulumi

2. Terraform (hashicorp/terraform) – Infrastructure as Code

Terraform is used to manage infrastructure. You can define your servers, databases, and networks in code, and Terraform will create them for you. It’s like DevOps magic. Written in Go.

Terraform: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform

Terraform or OpenTofu for infra as code

For more information on Docker, you can refer to the official Docker documentation and explore relevant open-source projects on Docker's GitHub. Additionally, for Terraform-related resources, check out the official Terraform documentation and Terraform GitHub.

In this post, I will share WebRTC.ventures' best practices in automating the deployment of AI-powered voice assistants for Amazon Connect, moving beyond manual, click-by-click setups to a robust, scalable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach. We’ll explore how to manage both static and dynamic resources, leverage tools like Terraform and AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), and even set up an automated deployment pipeline using Github Actions to deploy your conversational IVR solutions efficiently.

We manage infrastructure with Terraform and lean heavily on GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Very simple but it works! Oh and a lot of bash scripts of course.

You can download Terraform from terraform.io and install it on your machine.

Claude also created the IAC for deploying the app on Hetzner, using Terraform as the configuration tool. I only had to provide my Hetzner API key for VPS resource provisioning and my Cloudflare API key for domain name DNS entry management. 🌐

Terraform Installed: Download and install Terraform from the website: https://www.terraform.io/

Pulumi infra-as-code but with real programming languages

Terraform isn't without issue, though. Some feel that the descriptive configuration language is limiting. Pulumi offers to describe the infrastructure in a couple of existing programming languages, e.g., Python, JavaScript, and Kotlin. Instead of repeating ten configuration lines with only a single parameter changed, you can write functions and loops.

Thank you to Pulumi for sponsoring this challenge and giving the community a chance to build and deploy something awesome!

Pulumi allows defining infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages like Python, TypeScript, and Go. This approach brings the full power of software development to infrastructure management.

pulstack is a developer-friendly tool that lets you deploy static websites to AWS (S3 + CloudFront) or GitHub Pages with zero configuraton. It uses Pulumi under the hood to treat infrastructure as code, so your deployments are fully automated and version-controlled.

=== Installing Pulumi 3.159.0 === + Downloading https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/releases/download/v3.159.0/pulumi-v3.159.0-linux-x64.tar.gz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 85.9M 100 85.9M 0 0 28.5M 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 40.1M + Extracting to /home/ask/.pulumi/bin + Adding /home/ask/.pulumi/bin to $PATH in /home/ask/.bashrc === Pulumi is now installed! 🍹 === + Please restart your shell or add /home/ask/.pulumi/bin to your $PATH + Get started with Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/quickstart

This project demonstrates how to deploy a static website using Hugo and Pulumi on AWS S3. Hugo is a fast static site generator, and Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code tool that allows you to define cloud resources using TypeScript. The site is deployed to an S3 bucket configured as a static website, with public access enabled for viewing.

Pulumi is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows you to define and manage cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages rather than domain-specific languages. In our case, we'll use Python to define our infrastructure, which means we can leverage Python's full feature set, including loops, conditionals, and functions, making our infrastructure code more flexible and maintainable.

This project focuses on automating the deployment of a static website using Pulumi and AWS services, specifically S3 and CloudFront. By adopting infrastructure as code (IaC), it simplifies cloud resource management while ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency.

We're excited to partner with Pulumi for a new DEV challenge focused on Infrastructure as Code!