Hi I am really Enjoying Pulumi, thanks for the team and others involved for making this great job. I have a question about using Pulumi for my needs, I want to configure Istio in a GCP K8s using Pulumi. I already acomplished configuring Kubernetes cluster in GCP, and for Istio I don't want to use Helm, because Istio is dropping helm in 1.6. Now they instruct you to use istioclt that is a CLI to install Istio. So I want to know if the following is possible and safe: is it possible to use Pulumi to configure a cluster , then install Istio with istioclt and then apply the k8s manifests that needs istio using Pulumi again? If not, is there another way ?

You can’t install it via istioclt, but I believe their CLI supports generating the manifests.

Thank you, I tried to generate with istioctl manifest generate, but it generates a non-valid yaml with if-else conditions. I will try to search if there is another way.

If it is, that sounds like a bug.

I will try again, thank you

Pulumi’s k8s provider has retries built in, so you can apply everything at the same time in most cases, and it will still resolve properly.

I do wish Pulumi handled support for dependencies when using yaml/helm. I can’t imagine it being hard to do.

Can you explain this a bit more?

then apply the k8s manifests that needs istio using Pulumi again

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