Hello again! I'm here with another question. I started creating my projects with typescript and though it's relatively nice and clean, I think I prefer python. How do I convert my projects from typescript to python? I'm not even looking to translate index.ts to main . My projects are relatively simple so I can do that manually.

The easiest and simplest way is if you are ok with destroying the resources, deleting the stack and then recreating everything with the desired project runtime. The other way involves renaming the project to something else which frees up the project name for you to create a new one with the original name using the desired runtime. Then you'd have to force-remove (

stack rm

) the stack in the renamed project without actually destroying any of the resources. Finally, you'd have to

pulumi import

every single resource into the new project's stack.

Thanks @clever-sunset-76585. At this stage, I'm ok with destroying the resources. But what I'll do is test what you suggested just in case I have to go through the scenario in the future when I can't afford to destroy the resources. So to reiterate, the steps are: 1. pulumi stack rename with FQ project name, that way the project gets renamed, rather than a stack. 2. pulumi stack rm -f to delete the stack but keep resources 3. create a new project with the same name as the original project 4. pulumi import each resource

Project names are specified in the

Pulumi.yaml

file, so you should update the name in that file after the rename. Also I just realized something. Since you'd be reusing the original project and the stack name, you can simply import the state into the new project that has the right runtime. For that you should first export the state from your current stack (before you run the stack rename) as a backup.

Hi @clever-sunset-76585 So I tried what you suggested and exported the stacks before a rename. I created a new project with the same name. I can't, however, import the stacks:

error: the stack 'dev' is too old to be used by this version of the Pulumi CLI

error: the stack 'dev' is too old to be used by this version of the Pulumi CLI

I have never seen that error before. What was the CLI version when you created the original TS-based project?

Unfortunately, I must have closed that terminal window so I can't tell the version of the CLI.. But it was recent. I started playing with Pulumi only a couple of weeks ago.

That's strange indeed. You are still talking about a

pulumi stack import

, correct? Anyway glad you've sorted it out.

yeah, it was the stack import from a previously exported file.