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You have an existing `index.ts` but you still need to bootstrap the project? Why is that?

Well I have a “template” project that it is being bootstrapped for each GCP project/customer so common items like admin gcp project, host VPC, etc are automatically created at the beginning. Hope it makes sense?

Yes, but you should keep the Pulumi project file (`Pulumi.yaml`) also under source control and only create a new stack non-interactively when you want to roll this out.

That is one way to do it. Another is to have the reusable code in a language specific package (npm for javascript, egg for python, …) and re-use this in a project which is specifically set up per customer

what you can do it to have generic__main__.py for python or index ts in your case and cp it to index.ts, that's what I do in pulumi_init script

Yes I was thinking about `cp` after bootstrapping is done.  Is there a way to create a custom template? Perhaps this will be more elegant solution?

You can pass a url to `pulumi new`. The examples are here: <https://github.com/pulumi/templates>
 eg: `pulumi new <https://github.com/pulumi/templates/tree/master/kubernetes-python>`

just replace the built in template with your own