5. In our terraform code sometimes we need to resort to local-exec provider (e.g. to invoke

gcloud

to modify a resource with an option that is not yet supported by terraform google provider. Is there a counterpart of local-exec provider in pulumi?

We're actively working on a drop-in replacement for local provisioners. We do already support this via "dynamic providers" - see for example https://github.com/pulumi/examples/pull/191. However, we are aiming to offer something much simpler as part of https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1691 which we're working on currently.

Great - thank you for the pointers!