No matter how you like to participate in developer communities, Pulumi wants to meet you there. If you want to meet other Pulumi users to share use-cases and best practices, contribute code or documentation, see us at an event, or just tell a story about something cool you did with Pulumi, you are part of our community.

Pulumi Community

The `pulumi/actions` image is meant for use with GitHub Actions (more info here <https://pulumi.io/reference/cd-github-actions.html>). As such, it adds a bit of CI scaffolding, like supporting multiple branches, on top of an installation of the Pulumi SDK and various clouds.

The `pulumi/pulumi` image is a simpler, built-from-source, wrapper around the CLI. It's just meant to make it easier to use the CLI in scenarios where you don't want to install it, or for derived images in CI scenarios.

We plan to revisit some of the duplication here as part of <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1991;> though they may remain distinct, we will be sure to clarify their purposes in our docs and descriptions.