Is there a way to run e.g.

pulumi up

without the password hassle somehow? our backend is on S3 bucket, and we don't need passwords, it's only adding unnecessary complications 🙏

There are alternative encryption providers you can use that store the key in a secrets management service. We're on Azure and use the Key Vault provider, works seamlessly with no extra interaction required.

Thanks @ripe-park-70944. Still, each user needs to decide on a password and remember it, right?

You would need to be logged in to the cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) CLI, but I assume each user would have done this already? Then permissions are managed via the usual cloud provider means.

Ok maybe that's the solution. I'll try it. Thanks!