Does Pulumi use Terraform?
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full-dress-10026
09/24/2018, 5:56 PMDoes Pulumi use Terraform?
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creamy-potato-29402
09/24/2018, 5:56 PMAWS, Azure, and GCP do. Kubernetes does not.
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full-dress-10026
09/24/2018, 5:57 PMAh interesting. Are there any docs on how it uses it?
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creamy-potato-29402
09/24/2018, 5:58 PMHmm, I’m not sure if there are other things, but there’s this:
• https://pulumi.io/reference/how.html
• https://pulumi.io/reference/vs/terraform.html
creamy-potato-29402
09/24/2018, 5:59 PMFor Kubernetes, it depends only on kubernetes/client-go
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full-dress-10026
09/24/2018, 6:00 PMCool, thanks.
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big-piano-35669
09/24/2018, 6:05 PM
TL;DR, Pulumi uses the Terraform providers for CRUD operations. Our TF bridge effectively implements this gRPC interface https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/master/sdk/proto/provider.proto by fusing those methods with TF's CRUD APIs, with the schema translation necessary to map Pulumi's type system (TypeScript, Python, etc). Note that Pulumi doesn't actually use Terraform's engine, state files, or anything like that.
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full-dress-10026
09/24/2018, 6:06 PMIs the reasoning behind this because it was easier to do that than to bind directly to the AWS APIs?