For someone who s starting to use Pulumi to provision a plat

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For someone who s starting to use Pulumi to provision a platform on Azure would you recommend using the next gen provider or the terraform one

brave-planet-10645 · Answer

You ll get more up to date resources with nextgen

brave-planet-10645 · Answer

At the moment technically it s in preview although many customers use it for their production deployments

brave-planet-10645 · Answer

But if you want the latest services from azure when they re made available use nextgen

glamorous-helmet-50600 · Answer

Cool thanks I found it a bit hard to get to the next gen documentation Am I right to think it s not difficult to migrate already existing Pulumi using terraform provider to next gen

broad-dog-22463 · Answer

< glamorous helmet 50600> It s difficult to provider a direct migration as some of the resources don t actually exist in the Terrafom based provider some work may happen in this are but I am not 100 sure

glamorous-helmet-50600 · Answer

Fair enough my stack is still very small anyway so I think I might be just in time

glamorous-helmet-50600 · Answer

My only concern is that next gen doesn t seem to have as much documentation examples

broad-dog-22463 · Answer

what documentation are you looking at

broad-dog-22463 · Answer

The API reference docs are here <https www pulumi com docs reference pkg azure nextgen >

broad-dog-22463 · Answer

Each of the resources should have examples for all languages