[eats_indigo]

I think if you ever have highly dynamic infrastructure requirements -- think along the lines of a control plane that's spinning up additional workers -- it's really helpful to be able to run your infra provisioning logic locally. There's nothing worse than having to wait on cloud builds to test your iterations.

[oulipo]

What would be the difference between eg Tilt and Pulumi for this?

[dharmab]

Tilt is for your laptop, where you're editing code. Pulumi is for your cloud environments.

[oulipo]

I can use Pulumi on my laptop too... that's precisely what I do... for my use-case I use it more like a "programmable docker-compose" if you want