okay what am I missing you have to use a pulumi account? I am trying my first new project and it wants a login but I thought you could just manage things locally/?

You can use

pulumi login --local

to store state locally instead of in the Pulumi service. See https://pulumi.io/reference/cli/pulumi_login.html for details.

so what is it looking for from github?

The default mode is to log you into the service so that you don't need to manage checkpoint state files, or deal with serializing concurrent updates, on your own. Most users find it to be a much more convenient way to go. That said, as Luke notes,

--local

will give you the ability to manage the state file by hand, without any communication with the Pulumi service. It should not ask for your GitHub credentials when operating in this mode.

Are you using

pulumi new

? That will download templates from GitHub.

OH!

You can download them yourself and use

—offline

or simply create a project from scratch yourself.

that makes sense I suppose

In particular, templates come from the open source repository at: https://github.com/pulumi/templates

so is it viable to check in these state files if you have them local?

You could - though that is not something I commonly see. You would want to be very careful about what potentially sensitive data might be in them, as inputs or outputs of resources you are managing. Many users store in S3 or some other object store that can be permissioned appropriately. There is work in progress to support that more natively in https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/2026. The complexity of managing this safely yourself is part of why we default to helping manage this for you.

no I totally get it...the trick is being able to make the case for mgmt to buy into the expense 🙂

Note that the Community Edition of the SaaS is 100% free to use. It has most of the features of the paid Team Edition, just not team collaboration features like organizations, RBAC, etc. But for personal use, it's definitely the easiest way to go.

Which would be ok for me to experiment with...but as an enterprise customer I can't use it right?

You can 🙂

Ok what am I missing please shine the light cause I am in love with the product and my managers can be cheap hah

But for small teams this could be entirely ok.

Ok I was looking at that

No stack limits but that's right, just GitLab/GitHub identity (Atlassian coming soon)

hmm which might be a deal breaker our repos are internal

The paid versions support SSO, SAML, Okta, ActiveDirectory, etc, another reason enterprises often choose the paid tiers.

oh ok that works just using it for the oauth benefit

Sure thing, don't hesitate to reach out if we can help with anything else -- hope the combination of all of this means that Pulumi works for you 🙂

guess we shall see now to figure out beanstalk 😉