Pulumi

Pulumi. Generates IaC based a programming language of your choice.

Blurb

Pulumi is an open-source infrastructure as code platform that helps humans and agents build and manage cloud infrastructure with real programming languages.

Summary

Garden stance: We assess Pulumi for our estate.

Overview: As with many Imperative IaC it suffers from serious drawbacks. However, for quick-hack lab environments - where the maintainer has little operational experience - it proves a compelling approach.

Detail 1: If you are in a company that cannot or will not use Terraform and you have a mature enough team to actively avoid the pitfalls of Imperative IaC then this is a very competent solution. Otherwise steer clear because you are going to end up in a worst place than just building by hand.