Does Pulumi have a native Cloudflare provider or j...
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brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 12:27 AMDoes Pulumi have a native Cloudflare provider or just the one derived from Terraform?
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modern-zebra-45309
04/10/2025, 8:49 AMI don't believe so, but I also don't think a Pulumi-native provider would bring any benefit as long as the TF provider is well-maintained. (Note that since about half a year ago, Pulumi can use any TF provider directly: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/any-terraform-provider/)
b
brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 10:57 AMBut then why you created some native providers? What was the benefit in those cases?
brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 10:58 AMI think what Pulumi truly needs is "L2 constructs" equivalent of CDK i.e. higher-level abstractions.
brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 10:58 AMEssentially what you did for AWS provider with awsx: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-awsx
brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 10:58 AMIt would be nice to have something equivalent for Cloudflare.
brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 10:59 AMTheir Terraform provider includes far too many boilerplate fields that need to be filled in repeatedly, even though many—like the account ID—are essentially redundant. Fields like that could be set globally via the provider configuration, with the option to override them if necessary.
m
modern-zebra-45309
04/10/2025, 12:23 PMI'm just a Pulumi user, I can't speak to the company's strategy or history 🙂 If you need it, or believe there's demand, you can create the equivalent of
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brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 1:16 PMWell, Cloudflare didn't really have a true provider until 5.0.0 and even in 5.0.0 I had to ask for missing stuff that came in 5.1.0 and now there's 5.2.0
brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 1:17 PMSo it's still a very recent thing.
brief-football-29481
04/10/2025, 1:17 PMI just see myself writing too much boilerplate for properties I think should have sensible defaults I shouldn't need to specify over and over.
m
modern-zebra-45309
04/10/2025, 2:11 PMYou can just wrap the resources in Pulumi and set the defaults, e.g., by implementing functions to generate them or by creating component resources. Compared to TF, I find it very convenient.
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