Comment by eats_indigo
2 days ago
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.
What would be the difference between eg Tilt and Pulumi for this?
Tilt is for your laptop, where you're editing code. Pulumi is for your cloud environments.
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