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Forgive my lack of understanding the Pulumi Terraform connection, but if I wanted to use the Terraform provider in Pulumi how would that work if there is no pulumi provider/resource for BigIP yet?
<https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-bigip>

<@UDDT55600> It’s a fairly simple job to create a bridged provider

So my question comes from this repo <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-terraform>
which explains the bridge stuff.
And forgive my lack of understanding but, how is this used to create a bridge provider? Does this program build it, do i need a new project that uses this repo as the base? Do, i need a new project that calls this tf bridge project? I feel like i am missing some details on getting started with create a new TF Bridge provider

i agree it’s probably easy, and after understanding the process and doing it once over, that it will seem a lot easier

Here’s a nice small example: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-random>

A provider is a Go program that depends on pulumi-terraform and on the terraform provider itself, and has a map, like this: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-random/blob/master/resources.go#L50-L81>

I wonder if there is a way to run the tests without actually owning an F5

Right. I get the examples. But what is building all the scaffolding for the pulumi provider in the go project? Or how much can I copy from an existing example? Is there pulumi provider bridge generate blank project? This is where i am stuck at, not being a Go developer

I guess we should have a boilerplate repo for this stuff actually

Right now I think it’s pretty much cargo culted from repo to repo, there’s not necessarily a coherant approach that you are missing

(i.e. are you doing this out of necessity to proceed or desire to learn, I guess)

I am trying to make the case to my team that we can use pulumi for On-Prem IAC

I opened <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-terraform/issues/293> on the topic of having an easy to use template for creating new Terraform-based providers.  Definitely something we can make easier.  Many users have been successful starting from something like <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-random> and manually updating to the desired provider.  We are also very happy to help with this process either during initial bringup, or in moving the provider into the `pulumi` organization and adding it to our test matrix.  (though as <@UB8A66MPS> notes, not sure what the test approach looks like for BigIP given there is custom hardware required for testing).

so things we need to put into IAC would involve, vsphere, big-ip, infoblox(Maybe), Active Directory(OUs, DNS, Groups)

RIght testing against a physical F5 would be difficult without one