I have a lot of different pulumi applications (and github repositories, one per app) that are scoped to various things like networking, kubernetes, monitoring, etc. I want a single place to execute all the stacks in order. I was thinking of building a script to do this, but I was curious if anyone has created a better solution. I'm working through github actions to deploy pulumi, so I don't think I can just tie those actions together to execute each other.

you could do it in one github action, you can use the

actions/checkout

to check out the various repos and then run

pulumi up -s stack_name

, thats probably the best way i could think of doing that, and each step uses

needs: other_stack

in the job definition, would be a horrifically large workflow file though 😄

Good call! Thanks.

providing all your stacks are in the same backend bucket of course! hope you figure it out 🙂

Yeah we are using pulumi's offering for state management, so no worries there

ah ok cool, should be pretty straight forward to implement then 🙂 just a lot of repetition potentially!

Yeah, it isn't an ideal situation and I'll definitely keep exploring how others have handled multi-repo pulumi orchestration, but it should work for a short term ugly solution

i wonder if you could make use of the gh api by triggering workflow runs in other repos instead?

That automation API seems like the best fit here honestly

no worries man 🙂 hope you get it sorted

If I do build anything I'll make sure it's open source and send you a link 🙂

nice one! i think the most challenging part will be building the logic for the dependency DAG, but once youve nailed that should be up and away!