
Pulumi Cloud needed a unified scheduler to orchestrate deployments, Insights scans, and policy evaluations across both its own infrastructure and customer‑managed runners. The team built a database‑backed background activity system that treats each workflow as a typed, persistent activity with priority, routing, and retry metadata. A lease‑based optimistic concurrency model guarantees exactly‑once execution and automatic recovery from crashes or network failures. The design supports pull‑only agents, dependency DAGs, and a single handler interface for both hosted and remote execution modes, enabling rapid addition of new workflow types.

Pulumi has launched a new Terraform State provider for its ESC platform, allowing teams to import Terraform output values directly into ESC environments. The provider reads state files from local, S3, or Terraform Cloud backends and exposes outputs as first‑class...

Pulumi now offers reusable components to enable AWS IAM authentication for Aurora PostgreSQL, allowing applications to connect using short‑lived tokens instead of static passwords. The setup provisions an RDS cluster with IAM authentication, creates IAM‑enabled database users, and configures IRSA...

Pulumi’s Elastic Service Config (ESC) now includes a built‑in fn::validate function that checks configuration values against JSON Schema at save time. The feature instantly rejects invalid settings, preventing misconfigurations from reaching deployment pipelines or production. Users can define simple type checks...

Claude Code's skill system transforms generic AI assistance into senior‑engineer‑level DevOps guidance. By encoding best‑practice patterns—Pulumi ESC, component resources, monitoring, security, debugging—skills let Claude generate reliable infrastructure code while preserving context budget. Compared with Model Context Protocol servers, skills load...