Hi guys, if I was to create a new provider to supp...
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tall-monitor-77779
09/26/2018, 8:44 AMHi guys, if I was to create a new provider to support a new serverless framework (such as fission) does this need to be created in go? or can that be js/ts also? I can't find any docs. I've looked at
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white-balloon-205
09/28/2018, 7:42 PM
Sorry for delay!
You can implement providers in any language that can speak gRPC, but we only currently have examples of that in Go.
However, there is also a Dynamic Provider capability to author providers inside the JavaScript of a Pulumi program. There’s some discussion of this latter approach for talking to GitHub here: https://blog.pulumi.com/managing-github-webhooks-with-pulumi
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tall-monitor-77779
09/28/2018, 7:49 PMok thanks Luke, I'd probably want to create a provider 'the right way' and would happily use gRPC
tall-monitor-77779
09/28/2018, 7:49 PMI can do a little bit of go but not as fluent as in other languages
tall-monitor-77779
09/28/2018, 7:50 PMbut at the same time, I'm keen to create a serious plugin for fission
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white-balloon-205
09/28/2018, 7:54 PM
Taking something structurally similar to the Pulumi-openfaas project, but replacing Go with something else that can produce a stand-alone binary to serve gRPC, should work fine. There’s going to be a bit of boilerplate that you’ll need to port over for this - but nothing intractable.
white-balloon-205
09/28/2018, 7:56 PM
Curious - which language are you expecting to use?
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tall-monitor-77779
09/28/2018, 8:00 PMjavascript ideally, but could be .net core or python
tall-monitor-77779
09/28/2018, 8:00 PMor java but I guess thats last on the list
tall-monitor-77779
09/28/2018, 8:01 PMif go is the right choice then I'll have a hack away at it
tall-monitor-77779
09/28/2018, 8:10 PM(I'm fluent in typescript also)