Mark StosbergAlright #DevOps tonight I'm starting a thread about trying out #Pulumi for the first time. This is an Infrastructure as Code tool with the pitch that you can write the code in the language of your choice ( https://www.pulumi.com/ ). I'll be comparing it to #Ansible which I have more experience with. I'll try porting a server I've defined with Ansible to Pulumi and see what my first impression is. First, I need to get installed and choose a language to code in. 🧵
David Zaslavsky@markstos I've been using Pulumi for personal infrastructure for some time but I'm always looking for perspectives on it, so I will be following your experience with interest!
@diazona You mean using Pulumi provision personal cloud infra. How are you defining what's inside your servers?
I don't really have any infra besides a Mac Mini in my basement running Linux, which I think is probably a poor fit for Pulumi. 😂
@markstos heh, yeah 😂 #Pulumi doesn't do that. I do use it exclusively for creating cloud resources, or occasionally things of a similar nature like Docker containers running on a host which had the Docker runtime installed and configured separately.
In order to get things installed on the servers after I provision them, I've historically mostly used shell scripts, although for new stuff I'm transitioning to cloud-init. Or in some cases I might separately (manually) prepare an image containing everything I want to wind up on the new server and use that.
For management of existing infrastructure I've been using #Pyinfra, which I like, although it doesn't have the wealth of predefined tasks/roles/playbooks that Ansible does. Someday I would like to integrate Pyinfra into my Pulumi usage.
@diazona Yeah, there's like 10 pyinfra packages on PyPI https://pypi.org/search/?q=pyinfra&page=1 vs like 37,000 roles published for Ansible... https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/standalone/roles/
John Sturgeon