This is the audio version of 🎬 Ninjastructure - Move fast & break nothing

Matias Pan, a professional maté drinker & Senior Software Engineer at Dagger, is showing us an approach to Infrastructure as Code built with Pulumi.

We look at Go code, discuss procedural (imperative) vs. declarative, spend some time on state management & introduce the concept of Ninjas in the context of infrastructure: move fast & break nothing.

In the second half, Matias uses diagrams to talk through different ideas of rolling this out into production. Which of the two approaches would you choose?

LINKS

• Testing Pulumi programs

EPISODE CHAPTERS

• (00:00 ) - Why Pulumi instead of Terraform?
  


• (02:40 ) - Procedural or declarative?
  


• (07:19 ) - What is Ninjastructure?
  


• (08:47 ) - First thing that gets provisioned in an AWS account
  


• (11:18 ) - How does the network module work?
  


• (14:29 ) - Biggest advantage to using Pulumi over Terraform
  


• (17:02 ) - Stacks = different environments
  


• (18:20 ) - Where is state stored?
  


• (20:18 ) - Where did you choose to store the state?
  


• (21:46 ) - How to use this in production?
  


• (24:32 ) - The GitOps approach
  


• (29:17 ) - Outro