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04/06/2023, 6:44 PM

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worried-rain-74420

04/06/2023, 6:47 PM

Hi Lucas! Very glad to hear you're enjoying it!

Specifically, is the pulumi cli a hard dependency to use the automation api?

Yes, the Pulumi CLI is a hard requirement for AutoAPI. We're exploring long term approaches to removing this requirement, but it's definitely a ways off.

worried-rain-74420

04/06/2023, 6:49 PM

Is there a way to have state management completely self-contained in a Go binary? i.e. Is it possible pulumi to create an s3 bucket to use for state storage, and then proceed to provision a stack that uses that bucket as a state backend?

Hmm... my answer is "yes and no" 😅 I would tackle this by creating a temporary directory (

/tmp/

), and using the filestate backend to write to that directory. From there, you can provision the stack, then delete the tmp directory.

worried-rain-74420

04/06/2023, 6:50 PM

Unfortunately, you can't "statelessly" create an S3 bucket, for example. You have to store the state somewhere. If you can write to a temp directory, you can always wipe the directory when you're done.

worried-rain-74420

04/06/2023, 6:53 PM

Just today I did something similar in a GitHub Action. I also wanted emphemeral state storage so I could run some performance tests.

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aws s3 mb <s3://my-bucket>

and when I was done...

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aws s3 rb --force <s3://my-bucket>

In this case, nothing about what I'm doing is "self-contained"; I'm invoking bash to run the aws command. Of course, you could use the AWS API from your Go program if you wanted. But unfortunately I don't think there's a way to "statelessly" bootstrap your environment.

bitter-energy-6777

04/06/2023, 7:03 PM

Thanks Robbie! I've only been using the managed pulumi service backend, which is very convenient, but would like to offer more flexible, self-managed solutions to users for state storage. I like the idea of using the file backend to create the s3 bucket, thanks! I would likely use the AWS SDK in my program to create the bucket using the file state backend to be as self-contained as possible. I looked through the docs and some pulumi issues, but couldn't find the syntax for using the auto api to point to an s3 backend. Do you have any references you could point me to?

worried-rain-74420

04/06/2023, 7:27 PM

Sure! Glad to help 🙂 I think you want this example, and when you initialize the Project, you can use the Backend field to provide the path to the tmp directory.

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