Pulumi State Management – How to Store & Manage Pulumi State

Pulumi is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that allows developers to define infrastructure components in various programming languages, including Javascript, Python, Typescript, Go, C#, and Java. It streamlines infrastructure management with features like modular configuration, secrets management, and automation. The state backend is crucial for IaC as it stores metadata about the desired configuration and what has been provisioned in the real world. State backends can be classified into service and self-managed types, with local and 3rd party state backends being further classifications of the latter. This post provides a hands-on walkthrough of configuring a local backend, creating an EC2 instance using Pulumi and Typescript, migrating the state to Pulumi Cloud, and deleting/destroying the EC2 instance. Spacelift is also mentioned as a flexible management platform for IaC that supports various tools like Pulumi, Terraform, Kubernetes, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Terragrunt.