does

pulumi plugins install

call home? we have CI with no internet access it takes 2.5 minutes, while actual file fetch takes <1 second:

+ date
+ pulumi plugin install resource gcp v0.18.15 --server <http://local-proxy.corp:8000/api.pulumi.com/releases/plugins> --verbose --logtostderr
Mon Aug 12 16:09:38 UTC 2019
[resource plugin gcp-0.18.15] installing
[resource plugin gcp-0.18.15] downloading from <http://local-proxy.corp:8000/api.pulumi.com/releases/plugins>

Downloading plugin:  0 B / 27.96 MiB    0.00%[resource plugin gcp-0.18.15] installing tarball ...

Downloading plugin:  6.12 MiB / 27.96 MiB   21.89%
Downloading plugin:  12.03 MiB / 27.96 MiB   43.03%
Downloading plugin:  21.53 MiB / 27.96 MiB   77.01%
Downloading plugin:  27.96 MiB / 27.96 MiB  100.00% 0s
Moving plugin... done.
+ date
Mon Aug 12 16:12:10 UTC 2019

It could be the version checking that happens. Try setting the environment variable

PULUMI_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK=true

.

thanks! I'll try

ours always hangs at the "moving plugin" step for a long time

it unpacks it to ~/.pulumi, can it be that some network FS is mounted there?

sometimes more than the 10 minute CI timeout

@better-rainbow-14549 What CI are you running on? And what OS? That is definitely not expected!

it does it locally on win10 too, but we're using ADO CI with an ubuntu build agent