As an Azure Administrator, I often use Web console to create new web app or new service, e.g if you want to create a new web app and deploy to Azure use following guide https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/environment/app-service-web-how-to-create-a-web-app-in-an-ase
However, when you deploy many web applications in production, things are getting more complex (e.g Load balancer, databases, services,…). That is job Infrastructure as code => Manage your cloud infrastructure by configuration/programming.
As .NET developer, I prefer a C# language to manage cloud infrastructure, and I found out that Pulumi supports C# language recently, it also supports TypeScript, Javascript, Golang and Python.
With Pulumi for .NET you can:
- Declare infrastructure using C#, VB.NET, or F#.
- Automatically create, update, or delete cloud resources
- Use your favorite IDEs and tools (e.g Visual Studio Code)
- Catch mistakes early on with standard compiler errors, Roslyn analyzers, and an infrastructure-specific policy engine for enforcing security, compliance, and best practices.
- Reuse any existing NuGet library.
- Deploy continuously, predictably, and reliably using Azure DevOps Pipelines,…
- Build scalable cloud applications using classic infrastructure cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker containers, serverless functions, …
Steps to try out Pulumi
- Install Pulumi for Linux https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/install/
Install Pulumi for Windows
- Install Choco for windows https://chocolatey.org/install
- Run choco to install pulumi
choco install pulumi
Install Azure CLI
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest
Config Azure
- Config Azure https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/cloud-providers/azure/setup/
- After install, run Pulumi new azure-csharp from the terminal/cmd and select parameter to create a new project, it will ask you to create login/signup an account in Pulumi website
- Open program.cs Pulumi already generated a sample to create a new resource and sample storage account
- To deploy the sample to your Azure account, run command pulumi up, it will prompt for confirm, press “yes” to confirm the deployment
- Now you go to Azure, you can see your resources created
- To delete resources, run command pulumi destroy
To learn more about Pulumi, visit https://www.pulumi.com/docs/.
