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by antoncohen
1887 days ago
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> Open Source SDK > The SDK is a CLI and collection of libraries for defining and deploying cloud apps and infrastructure in code. https://www.pulumi.com/pricing/ With Terraform the open source CLI and libraries for defining and deploying infrastructure are fully usable, even for large systems. What I would like to know is, how usable Pulumi is without a paid subscription? I thought when I first looked at Pulumi, the only non-local state backend was the paid Pulumi Service. But looking at it now, they seem to support the normal object store backends that Terraform does (https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/). Though the talk at lack of concurrency control seems to imply they don't support locking like Terraform does. |
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Pulumi is fully functional in open source form. The analogy I like to draw is Git and GitHub. You can use Git fully independent of GitHub, or you can choose to use them together, for a seamless experience within a team. (Not a perfect analogy since we built both Pulumi open source and the Pulumi SaaS, which causes this very confusion!) We don't hold anything back, if it's in the SDK, it's open.
We recently added concurrency control to the alternative backends. I'm sorry the docs are confusing on this matter -- we will get that fixed up. We also have many large customers in production on the open source alone. It's easier with the SaaS just because we handle security, reliability, and sharing with your team along with access controls, auditing, etc. But if you prefer to roll your own there we are entirely happy to have you in the community and help out. Admittedly our marketing materials aren't super clear here and we are working to fix this.
Hope this helps to clear things up and again apologies for the confusion.