Am I right in thinking that if I'm using the go sdk for Azure containers, i don't need to do a

pulumi up

?

not necessarily. Pulumi has 3 ways of driving a programs execution. 1. the standard, CLI way with

pulumi up

2. Using automation API to create your own programmatic driver: https://www.pulumi.com/automation/ 3. Using Pulumi deployments as a managed driver You’ll still need to define your Azure containers in the Go SDK. You then need to decide which of those 3 options you’d like to use