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Pulumi has launched a public beta of its new Copilot tool, leveraging generative AI to streamline DevOps tasks. Powered by OpenAI’s large language model, Pulumi Copilot is trained with over 10,000 prompts related to the Pulumi data model and REST APIs of cloud service providers. This enables the tool to understand and interact with more than 160 cloud computing environments, providing contextual responses to natural language queries as if it were an added engineer on a DevOps team. Pulumi Copilot can identify cloud resources, generate code, troubleshoot issues, and diagnose compliance and security errors. In the future, it will be able to autonomously execute tasks. Initially free during its beta phase, the tool will adopt a pricing model similar to GitHub’s for full access, especially for Pulumi Enterprise customers. As AI assistants become more prevalent, the onboarding time for DevOps engineers is expected to decrease significantly. The next challenge lies in orchestrating multiple AI assistants within DevOps workflows, potentially requiring a primary AI agent to manage task assignments. While AI won’t replace DevOps engineers, it will enable smaller teams to manage large-scale applications efficiently, transforming traditional DevOps roles to focus on more strategic oversight rather than routine tasks.

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