hi! loving pulumi so far, really coo tool! if i’m using Go, can i run pulumi completely contained within my app? so the binary i create for my app can be self deploying?

This would be extremely compelling for SAAS “private” installers

yea, i have an application framework for Go and Amazon services; primarily Lambda and API Gateway. but its not geared for infrastructure management. not really what i want to focus on. so pulumi may work nicely

While it's possible to embed the engine, we don't really have first-class support for doing so. The

backend

package, for example, assumes that it can write directly to

stdout

and

stderr

, and doesn't really give the embedder any affordances to redirect that output.

That said, this was certainly the intent, that the Go engine will evolve over time to support embedding like this. (Given that all the APIs are public -- including ways to hook and redirect output streams -- I strongly suspect someone sufficiently motivated could make this work.) I saw @white-balloon-205 filed an uber issue to track various Go runtime issues, @microscopic-florist-22719 should we track this there ("hostability")? Or is it large enough that it warrants a new issue?

I think this warrants its own issue.

Great, would you mind filing, and capturing the challenges that occur to you top-of-mind? Probably worth linking to Luke's issue as we look at Go all-up in the weeks to come.