crazy question folks Is the SDK completely coupled to the CL

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crazy question folks Is the SDK completely coupled to the CLI or would i theoretically be able to execute stack operations in the context of another node js application

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

The SDK and CLI are currently coupled so you cannot run Pulumi from within another node application

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

Someone else on the team can articulate it better than me but the Pulumi engine in the CLI is critical to the execution of a Pulumi app

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

We are exploring ways ideas of enabling Pulumi to be embedded in other applications but I believe this would be via Golang and isn t a near term effort

white-balloon-205 · Answer

Currently the SDK is coupled to the Pulumi engine which is loaded from the `pulumi` CLI The best way today to automate stack operations is to shell out to the `pulumi` CLI You can of course do that from any language you want Many CLI commands accept ` json` parameter to provide their results as machine readable JSON so they can be processed from code We are looking at options to allow driving deployments directly via the JS Python Go SDKs But our immediate focus is on enabling the CLI to be easily invoked programmatically as this unlocks the full flexibility of the existing CLI and engine from any language ecosystem albeit with a little more ceremony

fast-motherboard-21624 · Answer

great thanks that s very helpful

fast-motherboard-21624 · Answer

has there been any prior interest in this use case

white-balloon-205 · Answer

Yes this has come up a lot We re thinking a lot about ways to streamline this further

fast-motherboard-21624 · Answer

are there any discussion planning issues on gh i can follow participate in

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

< fast motherboard 21624> I believe is the best issue to subscribe to