Our great sponsors
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thanos
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
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terraform-cdk
Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Pulumi
Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀
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Nomad
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
That’s where Thanos comes in. As the GitHub README states, “Thanos is a set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments.” Managing storage is often a big pain point with metrics collection, so unlimited storage capacity sounds fantastic, and Thanos also adds high availability to Prometheus.
Overall I really like Pulimi’s approach. I think it’s better to meet users where they’re at than to ask them to learn a DSL. The fact that HashiCorp recently built the Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (currently in beta), which allows you to write code for Terraform using the same languages that work with Pulumi, is another vote for Pulumi’s approach.
I spent some years pretty deep in the Infrastructure as Code world (I worked as an SRE at Puppet and was a Puppet user before that), and it’s a topic that still interests me quite a bit. For a while I thought Terraform had won the cloud provisioning tools space, and maybe it still has, but Pulumi is a newer alternative with some pretty cool aspects.
Did you know there are container orchestrators besides Kubernetes? One of them is Nomad, made by the folks at HashiCorp.