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you can run that step as a pre-run command and modify your environment via PULUMI_ENV

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/deployments/api/#operationcontext>

Although, now that I think about it, I might try running the command in the Pulumi program itself …

depending on what you need to do you might need to modify the execution environment to install some additional dependencies — the docs should cover how to do that as well