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<@U049XH735BR> that isn’t related to your access token, it looks like your docker image doesn’t have a user set. Can you share your docker image definition?

I'm literally pulling the docker image from dockerhub

<@UCWG26BH7> thanks for looking into this

which image from dockerhub? `pulumi/pulumi` ?

try adding:
```-e PULUMI_HOME='/app' \```


Ah! That seems to have fixed the problem!

at least I can now see the preview and the command is working

Is this something I should flag on github somewhere?

like an Issue or something? There's no trace about this requirement in the docker image documentation

definitely worht opening an issue to document in pulumi/pulumi

<@U049XH735BR> based on what I'm reading about your use case, you may want to consider looking at Pulumi Deployments. There is a REST API available via Pulumi Cloud that you can use to run updates/previews/refresh/etc on demand. It is kind of like a hosted version of automation API that allows you to avoid all of this setup and orchestration necessary to run auto api within docker:

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/pulumi-cloud/deployments/>