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You'll still need to have the Pulumi CLI on your machine

Ahh that's what I was worried about.  I really need a library that can act as a sort of multi cloud client

without needing a CLI since I'm distributing this to end users with variable levels of technical skill

Isn’t it possible to include the binary inside your election app?

It is,  but I was really hoping to avoid it.  There are some barriers atm but I'm hoping to keep the possibility of transitioning to a web app in the future

So then I'd have to write and maintain an API server front end to the Pulumi CLI if I understand correctly

Pulumi has the automation API, weve  already donemost of the hard work for you :grinning: you just need to make sure the cli is present in your PATH

<https://www.pulumi.com/automation/|https://www.pulumi.com/automation/>

Here’s an example webapp 

<https://github.com/pulumi/automation-api-examples/tree/main/nodejs/pulumiOverHttp-ts|https://github.com/pulumi/automation-api-examples/tree/main/nodejs/pulumiOverHttp-ts>

Am I reading correctly that with this setup I just need the Pulumi to build the app but don't need to bundle it with the binary?  Or will I still need to bundle it

looking at <https://github.com/pulumi/automation-api-examples/tree/main/nodejs/inlineProgram-tsnode>

I'm also confused what `inline` means here

ahh no so that example deploys an app with Pulumi, it doesn't deploy an app which uses Pulumi

Can you explain a bit more what you’re trying to do? I’m 95% sure Pulumi supports your use case as we have lots of companies doing this 

Here’s an example electron app

<https://github.com/cnunciato/pulumitron|https://github.com/cnunciato/pulumitron>

I work on an app which lets users set up proxy servers on cloud infrastructure to use as a personal VPN

Currently there are a lot of manual steps for most cloud providers, and we're exploring ways that we can automate the process for multiple providers and make it easy to expand our list of available providers

we can absolutely help there I suspect, certainly at the infrastructure layer

if you'd like to chat about it, we can jump on a zoom call, might be easier to answer questions - feel free to DM me