Hi all, is it necessary to login to pulumi to use it? I can't find any docs on how to use the cli without pulumi login

You’ll need to do

pulumi login

but you can decide whether it goes to the Pulumi SaaS offering or not. You can decide to keep the state files local or in a cloud storage of your choosing. There’s some good content here https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/#self-managed-backend

Thanks for the info.