Performing tests on your IaC code with Pulumi

This is continuing from Part One of getting set up using Pulumi.

Software testing is generally meant to verify if one’s system is working as intended without any gaps or errors.

When it comes to the deployment of cloud infrastructure, there are quite a number of things that can go wrong. For instance, provisioning resources that handle sensitive data without specific access restrictions, or creating a resource with the intention of performing one task but not having it quite work as intended.

Thankfully, it is possible to perform tests in such situations with Pulumi.

Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that leverages general-purpose programming languages for provisioning cloud resources with multi-cloud support. Owing to its conducive implementation, integrating with other infrastructure or configuration management tools is a simple task.

In this article, we’ll look into creating a serverless function with Pulumi’s SDK and then explore how to perform tests on the program.

Pulumi program setup and deployment.

The function we’ll create will get invoked when new entries are added to a DynamoDB table. On invocation, the function will get the text content and call the AWS Polly service…