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Hi <@U03UTKEJEEM> - why are you running:

```pulumi up <https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/azure-py-aci>```
?

The order you’re running commands in isn’t best practice.

```pulumi new python-azure
pulumi config set azure-native:location westus2
pulumi up```

When using a template, what pulumi command should I use? I thought I was supposed to use pulumi up passing in the template as an argument. What should I do instead? What is the correct syntax?

`pulumi up` executes your pulumi code that you’ve written
`pulumi new` is the command you want to use to specify a template

what you’re passing isn’t a template url though, it’s an example

Like this?
```pulumi new python-azure
pulumi config set azure-native:location westus2
pulumi new <https://github.com/pulumi/examples/blob/master/azure-py-aci/__main__.py>
pulumi up```

no, you cannot pass the url you’re passing

that url isn’t a template, you’ll have to copy and paste the code you want into your program