Pulumi Has a Free IaC Platform That Replaces Terraform With Real Code

Terraform uses HCL — a domain-specific language that can't do loops properly, has no real functions, and forces you to learn a new syntax. Pulumi lets you define infrastructure in TypeScript, Python, Go, or C#. Real languages. Real IDEs. Real testing. What Pulumi Gives You for Free Infrastructure as real code — TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, YAML 100+ cloud providers — AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, and more Pulumi Cloud — state management, secrets, CI/CD (free tier available) Testing — unit test your infrastructure with standard testing frameworks Automation API — embed Pulumi in your own tools AI Assist — natural language to infrastructure code Quick Start curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com | sh pulumi new aws-typescript Real Code vs HCL Terraform (HCL): resource "aws_s3_bucket" "site" { count = length ( var . environments ) bucket = "myapp-${var.environments[count.index]}" } # Need a loop? Use count or for_each (limited) # Need a function? Write a module (complex) # Need