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Infrastructure-as-code vendor; author of the post and of the Pulumi HCL implementation and tfcompat harness described in it.
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Pulumi snapshots its Neo agent's working directory with open source Kopia after Git-based recovery left resumed tasks with incomplete files. Teams running long agent jobs face the same storage choice, and Pulumi chose what its self-hosted customers already run.
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A Pulumi panel recorded on 3 September collects ten questions about US legal reach, EU regions and self-held keys, and the two answers it publishes are about migration economics and the price of staying portable.
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HashiCorp's pitch is that agents should propose changes while Terraform governs them, with per-run OIDC credentials and project-scoped identities doing the work that change-by-change human review cannot do at machine speed.
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A New Stack piece argues the new shadow IT gets provisioned inside your own cloud account by an agent working for a helpful engineer, which means the OAuth grants and expense reports your playbook watches never fire.
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Pulumi's research preview builds a threat model before it looks for anything, then leans on two inputs its own post treats as conditional, the infrastructure code behind a resource and the runtime telemetry around it.
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The tfcompat harness runs the same HCL program through tofu and pulumi, then compares what the providers saw. The oracle is tofu, not a recorded expectation.
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