Revolutionizing Platform Engineering: Introducing Pulumi IDP
Platform engineering continues to gain momentum—and for good reason. The right approach helps teams ship faster, stay secure, and scale smarter. But how you build your platform matters. That’s why we’re launching new resources to help you design, govern, and scale an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with Pulumi.
Pulumi IDP: A New Era for Platform Engineering
Pulumi IDP is a complete solution for building Internal Developer Platforms that are fast, secure, and scalable. It brings together infrastructure as code, policy, secrets, CI/CD, and visibility into a single cloud engineering platform.
With Pulumi IDP, platform teams can:
Build golden paths using versioned, reusable infrastructure components written in familiar languages like TypeScript and Python.
Offer developer self-service without compromising governance, thanks to policy-as-code and centralized configuration.
Replace long-lived secrets with dynamic credentials and unified secrets management via Pulumi ESC.
Detect and remediate drift automatically across cloud infrastructure.
Visualize all resources—Pulumi or not—with Pulumi Insights, and query infrastructure using natural language via Pulumi Copilot.
You don’t need to cobble together your own control plane. Pulumi IDP is production-ready and is already in use by companies such as Imagine Learning and Nexxiot.
Read more about it in Announcing Pulumi IDP: Platform Engineering Accelerated.
The IDP Builder Course
The IDP Builder Course is a free, structured program designed to help you build a modern, secure, and scalable Internal Developer Platform. It includes 6 expert-led workshops, real-world examples, and a course completion badge you can share.
Module 1: Design & Build
Learn how to design your IDP foundation using reusable infrastructure components and templates that enable developer self-service.
Workshop 1 – IDP Strategy: Planning Self-Service Infrastructure
Workshop 2 – Golden Paths: Infrastructure Components and Templates
Module 2: Secure & Govern
Use policy as code, short-lived credentials, and centralized secrets management to govern your platform without blocking development.
Workshop 3 – Deployment Guardrails with Policy as Code
Workshop 4 – Day 2 Operations: Drift Detection and Remediation
Module 3: Scale & Expand
Support advanced platform use cases, including AI workloads, multi-team collaboration, and integration with existing tooling.
Workshop 5 – Self-Service AI Application Platforms
Workshop 6 – Advanced Topics for Building an IDP
Each session includes demos, implementation guides, and production-ready code examples. Register for the IDP Builder Course. It starts on July 30.
New Tools to Power Your Platform
Platform engineering teams using Pulumi now have access to powerful new capabilities that enable faster and more collaborative building and management of infrastructure components.
Private Component Registry (Public Preview)
The new Private Registry makes it easy to share internal infrastructure components—securely and at scale.
Version and document your components with built-in metadata, descriptions, and usage examples.
Publish directly using Pulumi CLI: 'pulumi publish'
Discover components via the Pulumi Console or API.
Enforce standards by encouraging reuse of pre-approved components like 'vpc.StandardVpc' or 'eks.SecureCluster'.
Perfect for enabling golden paths, the Private Registry supports all major Pulumi languages and works seamlessly with Pulumi Cloud’s identity and access controls.
More info read the blog article: Pulumi Private Registry: The Source of Truth for Golden Paths.
Visual Import: Turn Infrastructure into Code
Pulumi’s new Visual Import feature lets you generate infrastructure code directly from your cloud environment—no CLI required.
Browse existing AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud resources in the Pulumi Console.
Select the resources you want to manage and generate infrastructure as code in your preferred language.
Use it as a starting point for modernization, migration, or documenting your current state.
Learn how it works at Go from Cloud to Code in Minutes with Visual Import.
Direct Import of Terraform Modules
Now in public preview, you can import and run Terraform modules in Pulumi without translation tools or state files.
Point to a .tf file or a Terraform registry module.
Pulumi provisions it directly—side-by-side with other Pulumi code.
Add governance, secrets, or visibility using Pulumi’s native features.
This is ideal for teams migrating gradually or mixing Pulumi and Terraform in a controlled, modernized platform:
Try it out and Use Terraform Modules in Pulumi Without Conversion.
Upcoming Events
Kief Morris Live in NYC – July 15
Join us tomorrow in New York City for an evening with Kief Morris, author of Infrastructure as Code, along with the Pulumi and Thoughtworks teams.
Hear insights from industry leaders in infrastructure automation.
Network with other platform engineers.
Get a signed copy of the 3rd edition (while supplies last).
RSVP now: info.pulumi.com/kief-morris-nyc
Pulumi London Meetup – September 24
The London Pulumi User Group is back. Join us for lightning talks, real-world IDP stories, and conversations with peers building modern cloud platforms.
Details and RSVP: meetup.com/london-pulumi-user-group/events/308433237
Build Smarter. Secure Faster. Scale Confidently.
Pulumi’s mission is to empower platform teams with the tools and patterns to build internal platforms that don’t trade off velocity for control. With Pulumi IDP, the IDP Builder Course, and new capabilities like visual import, reusable components, and native Terraform support, you're set up to succeed.
Start building today:
Let’s build the future of infrastructure & platform engineering — together.