Pulumi has launched Neo, the first AI-powered platform engineering agent designed to address infrastructure bottlenecks caused by rapid software development enhancements from AI tools. Neo automates infrastructure management tasks while ensuring compliance and governance, allowing platform engineering teams to keep pace with accelerated development cycles. Initial beta users reported significant improvements in infrastructure provisioning and management efficiency.

Pulumi CLI v3.192.0 introduces the `pulumi state taint` and `pulumi state untaint` commands, allowing users to mark resources for replacement without direct access to cloud APIs. This feature enhances infrastructure management by enabling users to prepare for resource replacement in CI/CD pipelines, facilitating smoother deployments. Users can preview changes and apply replacements later, streamlining the workflow.

Golden paths in Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) provide pre-architected, reusable infrastructure patterns that standardize and accelerate cloud development. By utilizing Pulumi Components and Templates, organizations can encapsulate best practices and streamline the deployment of production-grade infrastructure, enabling developers to focus on building applications rather than managing complexity. This guide outlines how to create and document these components and templates for effective adoption across teams.