i’m trying to run pulumi inside a docker container / ci environment, but I’m getting the error

error: failed to load language plugin nodejs: no language plugin 'nodejs' found in the workspace or on your $PATH

. I can’t remember having to install a nodejs plugin explicitly locally, nor does

pulumi plugin ls

show locally a nodejs plugin. Any hints on what may be the problem? Note in the CI environment I’m running node 10, whereas locally I just have node 8 - may that be the cause?

Ah, yes,

pulumi

tries to load plugins from your path. So, if you need to load the Node.js runtime, it'll look for

pulumi-language-nodejs

, and if you need to load the AWS resource provider, it'll look for

pulumi-resource-aws

. So by symlinking, I suspect it did not find the binary adjacent to itself and failed. One solution is to add

~/.pulumi/bin

to your path (defeating the purpose, I suppose of your symlink), or symlinking the plugins also.