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It could be the version checking that happens. Try setting the environment variable `PULUMI_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK=true`.

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

sometimes more than the 10 minute CI timeout

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

&gt; sometimes more than the 10 minute CI timeout

<@UEU2M37GX> 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

pretty sure i've only ever seen it with the pulumi/azure plugin though now I think about it