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great-sunset-355
07/15/2021, 10:42 PMpulumi_awsgreat-sunset-355
07/15/2021, 11:04 PMI did some aws IoT with cdk but even then I had to create custom resources to talk to IoT API because it's not implemented in CloudFormation either.
judging from this: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/8801
same will be true for terraform and pulumi.
I'm guessing you'd need to extend/fork
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billowy-army-68599
07/15/2021, 11:05 PM
you're correct, we bridge the pulumi aws provider from the terraform provider. We're building a native AWS provider but we don't have an ETA yet
billowy-army-68599
07/15/2021, 11:06 PM
if you want to support a resource that isn't supported in the provider, you can either:
- ask them to merge the changes upstream, in which case you'll get it in pulumi
- use a dynamic provider (example here) https://www.twilio.com/blog/intro-to-infrastructure-as-code-with-twilio-part-1
- build a native provider just for that resource
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great-sunset-355
07/15/2021, 11:13 PMI was just reading this example
https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/twilio-ts-component
Do I understand correctly that it shows a custom component resource without dynamic provider, simply using SDK to call Twilio API
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billowy-army-68599
07/15/2021, 11:19 PM
that's not a dynamic provider
billowy-army-68599
07/15/2021, 11:19 PM
there are dyanmic providers here: https://github.com/pulumi/examples/search?l=Python&q=dynamic
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helpful-knife-18557
07/16/2021, 12:26 AMI'll look over this tomorrow and reports what i come up with as this is fairly critical for us. Thanks @great-sunset-355 and @billowy-army-68599!
helpful-knife-18557
07/16/2021, 4:14 PMso sounds like Dynamic provider might be the best approach here. At glance it does not sounds too complex. Ill give it shot. So would best practice be to create a provider per missing IoT feature or one larger "aws iot extra" provider?
helpful-knife-18557
07/16/2021, 4:33 PMthink i got my answer, one per missing feature
helpful-knife-18557
07/20/2021, 4:17 PMSo conclusion, Dynamic provider did do the job pretty well using Boto3 under the cover, pretty simple in the end, well done Pulumi!