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title: "#25 - All the Things You Wanted to Know About Pulumi.Explained"
date: 2021-03-11
episode: 25
---


This time we are joined by [Paul Stack](https://twitter.com/stack72) (Pulumi developer, former Terraform developer) and podcast friend [Jacob Lärfors](https://twitter.com/jlarfors) to talk about

- What is Pulumi?
- What and who is it for?
- The difference between Pulumi and Terraform (and if we should compare them at all)
- What is hard about Pulumi?
- What people ask the most? What are the common confusions?
- Cross-language infra libraries? How is it even possible?!
- Is there a possibility of a supply chain attack via Pulumi library?

[Discuss the episode or ask us anything on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/devsecops-talks/)

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## Notes

- Paul Stack [twitter](https://twitter.com/stack72), [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stack72/)
- Jacob Lärfors [twitter](https://twitter.com/jlarfors), [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jlarfors/)
- [Pulumi](https://www.pulumi.com/)
- [Paul's talk at DevOpsDays Madrid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UN2aVvIShc&list=PLKxa4AIfm4pXYg8NG50wftI_jzSSQK3ZR&index=13)
- [Pulumitron](https://github.com/cnunciato/pulumitron)
- [Ploy](https://github.com/jaxxstorm/ploy)
- [Pulumi Automation API](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2/go/x/auto)