Has anyone had a look on using Pkl-lang (<https:/...
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late-chef-72896
02/21/2024, 10:08 AMHas anyone had a look on using Pkl-lang (https://pkl-lang.org/index.html) in combination with Pulumi?
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salmon-account-74572
02/21/2024, 3:03 PMI don't think we have any "official" efforts underway, but if you can use Pkl to compile to YAML then there's a way to use it with Pulumi YAML. I believe we did some write-ups on this approach for CUE a while back.
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late-chef-72896
02/21/2024, 3:32 PMGood point. Thanks!
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salmon-account-74572
02/21/2024, 3:35 PMHappy to help!
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limited-rainbow-51650
02/22/2024, 9:27 AM@late-chef-72896 you should have been at CfgMgmtCamp where it was first presented by one of the authors.
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late-chef-72896
02/22/2024, 9:28 AM@limited-rainbow-51650 I would have liked to come but I started a new project and timing was not ideal.
late-chef-72896
02/22/2024, 9:29 AMI also wonder if it could compliment the pulumi config file
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limited-rainbow-51650
02/22/2024, 9:35 AMWhen using it at the Pulumi config level: describing the structure of your config, including any constraints, in Pkl, then codegen in Typescript or Go, would allow to set values in the Pulumi stack config, and use the Pkl generated code to read the struct and verify the values according the constraints.
limited-rainbow-51650
02/22/2024, 9:39 AMWhen using it as a preprocessor and compiling to YAML: you could write everything in Pkl and use the
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late-chef-72896
02/22/2024, 9:40 AMgood pointers as well. I need to experiment 🙂
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