The results are in! We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the Pulumi Deploy and Document Challenge, where we invited the community to build with Pulumi, deploy something awesome, and document the journey for fellow developers.
From ticket generators to mini-reddits to PR quality management systems, the submissions we received were full of creativity, technical depth, and generosity in sharing your learnings.
Thank you to everyone who participated, we hope you learned some new things and had fun along the way.
Let’s meet the winners!
🎉 Congratulations to…
🚀 Fast Static Website Deployment
@mohamednizzad tackled this prompt with a game dev twist! They thoroughly walk us through how they developed and deployed a web game as a static website to AWS using Pulumi.
Check out the color recall game and see how many levels you can beat!
🔐 Shhh, It's a Secret!
@cached_engineer built an OpenFeature Provider for Pulumi ESC, written in Go.
Turn configuration and secret management into a first-class citizen in your delivery pipelines!
🛠️ Get Creative with Pulumi and GitHub
@dev_kiran’s Pulstack CLI tool makes deploying a static site to S3 or GitHub Pages a one-minute task — no joke.
Built with Pulumi’s Automation API and GitHub provider, this submission nails the spirit of the prompt: getting creative and productive.
Prizes
Each winner will receive:
The winner of each prompt will receive:
- $1,000 USD
- DEV++ membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Our Sponsor
Thank you to Pulumi for sponsoring this challenge and giving the community a chance to build and deploy something awesome!
For anyone interested in learning more about Pulumi, we encourage you to join PulumiUP 2025 on May 6 at 9 am ET / 2 pm GMT / 4 pm PT ( May 7 at 9 am AEST).
PulumiUp is Pulumi's free virtual conference featuring real-world enterprise platform engineering success stories, technical demos, and expert discussions.
You'll get to hear about the trends, best practices, and lessons learned in:
- Platform Engineering & DevOps
- Cloud and IaC
- Security
And more!
What's Next?
More DEV Challenges are always just around the corner, following the tag to stay up-to-date:
#devchallenge
Thank you again to everyone who participated! We hope you had fun, felt challenged, and maybe added a thing or two to your professional profile. See you next time!
Interested in being a volunteer judge for future challenges? Learn more here!
Congrats @mohamednizzad, @cached_engineer, and @dev_kiran!!