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My guess is that I have to use something to the effect of:

import pulumi_cloudinit as cloudinit

# Generate a cloud-init config
config = cloudinit.Config("example",
    gzip=False,
    base64_encode=False,
    parts=[cloudinit.ConfigPartArgs(
        content_type="text/x-shellscript",
        content="""
#cloud-config
users:
  - name: pulumi
    ssh_authorized_keys:
      - your_public_ssh_key_here
""",
    )])

But this is just something I've found on the internet, it's not something I've inferred in anyway. Eh...

looks like the pulumi package for cloud-init just tracks the terraform provider. the same deprecation message is here on the config resource page in the provider docs https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/cloudinit/latest/docs/resources/config

for me

getConfig

is just misleading or I don't understand it. It leads me to believe that there's an existing config that I'm retrieving somehow and I'm not creating it there.

its frustrating that the example is using the deprecated resource. functionally, there doesn't appear to be any difference between the deprecated resource and the data source apart from how they would both be maintained in state by the provider. they both return a config object rendered from the config parts you provide

I've just realised that this is part of the same package, all that. So there's the overview (the link above), there's

Config

(deprecated) and there

getConfig

, what you've suggested. So the overview uses

config

, which is deprecated then, as you've mentioned, they just haven't updated the documentation, right? I'm mislead by that because in the overview

Config

is used differently than in the "Config" section. So

getConfig

is the only non-deprecated version, if I understand correctly.

yep, thats my understanding as well. they just need to update example wherever its being generated from

Do you happen to know how I could generate an actual cloud-init file from this? I need this as a proxmox snippet and there's no other way than having the file as such. You can't do it through the Proxmox API.

sorry, i haven't used proxmox before and i don't have a definite answer for you. but, can you talk a little more about your use-case? You could create a file and write the rendered config output from getConfig to it. though that might be too oversimplified depending on where you're running pulumi and where you need the file to go

Thanks, I have it, it took a while to understand how I could test it as such. I tried testing it python cli, but it doesn't work that way (because of async, await, future and all sorts of stuff 😄 ). Testing it with

pulumi up

did work, and yes,

.rendered

seems to be outputting what I want. I just need to create a file out of that.

awesome! glad to hear you got it working 🙌