Case Study: Snowflake achieves testable, repeatable infrastructure with Pulumi

Snowflake: Testable, Repeatable Infrastructure

Snowflake, a leader in cloud data warehousing, faced the challenge of migrating its entire platform from VMs to a multi-cloud Kubernetes architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP within a tight three-month deadline. Their existing infrastructure-as-code tools, which used a domain-specific language, were limiting their ability to create repeatable, testable, and scalable deployments. To support their rapid growth, they needed a new solution and turned to Pulumi.

By implementing Pulumi, Snowflake's developers could use the general-purpose programming language Go to treat their infrastructure as software. This allowed them to leverage existing SDKs and testing frameworks, making deployments dramatically faster and more reliable. The measurable result was a reduction in deployment time from 1.5 weeks to under a day. Pulumi provided the vendor-neutral platform that enabled Snowflake to meet its aggressive deadline and now plays a key role in its future multi-cloud and security strategies.

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