Pulumi, the company best known for its open-source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) technology, has enhanced its deployment workflow product, Pulumi Deployments, with new infrastructure lifecycle management capabilities. These include drift detection and remediation, automatic infrastructure cleanup with time-to-live (TTL) stacks, and scheduled deployments, all with a powerful and extensible REST API. These capabilities enable teams to improve reliability, cost, and security of Day 2 operations.

“We love spending time with our customers and these new features were born from what we’ve heard from them loud and clear,” said Joe Duffy, CEO of Pulumi. “Drift detection and remediation ensures you can trust infrastructure as code as your gold standard record and TTL stacks make it easy to empower more self-service without worrying about cost consequences. Of course, we have built these features with powerful and extensible building blocks at the core, as always. We are thrilled that these offerings help our customers make even more out of their cloud efforts.”

The new release extends Pulumi Deployments with these capabilities:

• Continuously Detect and Remediate Drift. Continuously monitor an organization’s infrastructure to detect and notify engineering teams when actual cloud infrastructure deviates from the infrastructure as code source of truth. Set up custom alerts using Slack, Microsoft Teams, or webhooks, or view drift through dashboards in Pulumi Cloud. Drift can be automatically remediated with custom policies that reapply the last known good state from prior deployments.
• Clean Up Stale Infrastructure with TTL Stacks. Automatically cleanup infrastructure based on flexible policies. After the criteria met – such as the amount of time passing – the infrastructure is automatically destroyed. This enables teams to enable self-service without worry that stale infrastructure will sit around indefinitely, costing money for unused infrastructure.
• Automate Recurring Workflows on a Schedule. All of these features are built upon a more flexible underlying capability, which is the ability to schedule deployment activities based on an arbitrary cron schedule. This lets teams schedule arbitrary deployment activities and extend the system with their own policies and operational workflows.

Pulumi also announced a new Pulumi Deployments free tier for all customers, which also applies to usage of the new features.

Drift detection, TTL stacks, and scheduled deployments are now available.