[lindydonna]

(I'm a product manager at Pulumi.)

Pulumi lets you describe cloud resources using code instead of a config language. It's not like Heroku, it's more like a deployment tool (e.g. Serverless Framework, Terraform, Claudia.js, Chalice, etc).

The difference compared to other deployment tools is that you use regular code, but it's turned into a declarative plan when you run `pulumi update`. So, you get the benefits of a regular programming language, while still following best practices of immutable infrastructure.

Does that help?

[akavel]

Then is this something like NixOps [1]? Or how does it differ?

[1] https://nixos.org/nixops/

[cwp]

Joe mentions working with "existing language package managers". That probably doesn't include nixpkgs, but perhaps it could.