Hey folks, I ve some noob questions.. 1- We are using Backstage and I am exploring two oppurtunities to build an IDP with Pulumi. But is it free? Do we need Pulumi Cloud etc? 2- Is it possible to run custom Pulumi through Backstage template?

I’m going to tag @many-telephone-49025 as I know he’s fairly familiar with backstage and I believe some other similar tools in the platform space.

thanks @cuddly-flower-91328

Hey Semih, sorry for the late reply. I am this week still in my PTO. To give you a short answers. Pulumi Cloud is free and you can run Pulumi through Backstage templates Have a look into https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-backstage-plugin for the official plugin.

@many-telephone-49025 thanks for the reply.. Should we really create an org account in cloud? Seems without, we can not able to use, am I right?

Yep, currently the plugin works with cloud first for state management! I have an open issue to support other backends too but had no time to implement it. But you could work around it with have the

pulumi logon —local

or so in the Dockerfile

But isn't it Pulumi cloud a paid service?

There is a fee tier, no CC needed. I even use this for all my demos and I work at Pulumi 😄 It’s that generous.

Can we able to use our blob storage rather Pulumi cloud?

I think you would need t take care that the login happes either in the Dockerfile or cloud-init or so. depending how and where you run Backstage https://pulumi-community.slack.com/archives/C84L4E3N1/p1728750003171029?thread_ts=1725025065.522969&cid=C84L4E3N1