I'll be honest, the mix of aws, awsx, and aws-native, none of which seem to fully support all modern AWS functions, is infuriating. And the AI talks in circles. awsx supports ECS Fargate better, but awx sucks at making a proper, working load balancer/target group with https listeners. The documentation on awsx is missing a lot of details, which would be fine if the AI could fill them in, but then it starts going back to aws. Some expose arns, some don't. Is there like a github repository or something with fully fleshed out examples of entire stacks top to bottom? Sanitized, of course.

Candid answers: • Don’t use awsx - it’s really not fit for purpose • there’s no real examples of fleshed out stacks of big infrastructure projects OSS. There are examples that exist: https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-examples - happy to chat if you need assistance • AI/GPT 4 in general has an issue with hallucinations, it’s not going to give you the answers you need.

I really appreciate the candid answers and the examples! I was only using awsx because the pulumi new container option used it. Maybe the awsx and aws-native stuff should be labeled as beta or something to be more clear. A lot of the examples out there are encouraging them. I'll clean sheet and start building only with aws off of your examples, and we'll see how far this old physical sysadmin who hates code gets today. 😉

this one? https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-examples/tree/400071f0af67d6e0be89aee69769502937f83824/typescript/aws/ecs

yep. For the VPC and the Cluster

the VPC and cluster are relatively well defined, the ECS service part is not

This is the service in the example

it’s also 3 years old, sadly

gotcha

some up to date code in python here: https://github.com/lbrlabs/brig.gs/tree/main

Yeah, I'm not a developer, and I'm doing my best with TS, so that likely won't help me 😉 But thank you for all of your assistance!

We recently did a reference architecture with Pinecone in TypeScript, and that used ECS. Perhaps some of that code would be helpful? (Note: there is a fair amount of AWSX in there.) Here’s the URL: https://github.com/pinecone-io/aws-reference-architecture-pulumi/

With a fresh start in the morning, I did finally get it all launched this morning, completely with aws only! I might set up a public github and put sanitized versions out there so there are more examples available. Thanks, everyone!

Let us know if you do decide to publish something, I’d love to help get the word out about it!

Will do!

I've had similar problems re: being confused about aws classic, aws native, aws crosswalk (awsx) and aws crosswalk (no awsx label, just has a different name. Here's a comment I ended up putting in my code after hours trying to work out what was going on

# <https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws-apigateway/api-docs/restapi/> <- aws 'crosswalk' provider, used to simplify creation of the apigateway
# <https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws/api-docs/apigateway/restapi/> <- aws crosswalk creates this as the underlying object (i.e. ${api_app.api})

Even now, after 2 years using this stuff, I'm still not entirely sure I understand what's going on. I suspect that the api-gateway plugin I use may not be full crosswalk? Or something? That said, I love awsx and hope you guys continue developing it. It makes it so incredibly simple and easy to deploy API gateway for example. And ECS. As an example, this is our entire frontend code:

##
  # Frontend/App
  # Serve the frontend from an S3 bucket, while keeping the bucket private.
  api_app:
    type: aws-apigateway:RestAPI
    properties:
      stageName: ${pulumi.stack}
      routes:
        # <https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws-apigateway/api-docs/restapi/#target>
        - localPath: ${confFrontendCompiledFilesPath}
          method: GET
          path: /

Amazing.

@salmon-account-74572 Here you go. Only one example for now, but I will endeavor to add all the things I build, and maybe organize it better as I go. 😉 https://github.com/darkmagedtm/pulumi_aws_examples/tree/main