pulumi

Infrastructure as code with general-purpose languages

TLDR

Create new project

$ pulumi new [template]

Preview changes

$ pulumi preview

Deploy stack

$ pulumi up

Destroy resources

$ pulumi destroy

List stacks

$ pulumi stack ls

Select stack

$ pulumi stack select [stack-name]

Show stack outputs

$ pulumi stack output

SYNOPSIS

pulumi [options] command [args]

pulumi is an infrastructure as code tool supporting multiple programming languages. It manages cloud resources using TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, Java, and YAML.
The tool provisions resources across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and many other providers using familiar programming constructs.

PARAMETERS

new

Create new project.

Deploy changes.

preview

Preview changes.

destroy

Delete resources.

stack

Manage stacks.

config

Manage configuration.

logs

View logs.

-s stack

Target stack.

-y, --yes

Skip confirmations.

--diff

Show detailed diff.

CONFIGURATION

Pulumi.yaml

Project definition file specifying the project name, runtime language, and description.

Pulumi.<stack>.yaml

Per-stack configuration file containing config values and encrypted secrets.

PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN

Environment variable for authenticating with the Pulumi Cloud backend without interactive login.

CAVEATS

Requires Pulumi account or self-hosted backend. State management important. Provider plugins downloaded on first use. Learning curve for programming approach.

HISTORY

Pulumi was founded by Joe Duffy and Eric Rudder in 2017. It brought general-purpose programming languages to infrastructure management, differentiating from domain-specific languages like Terraform's HCL.