I can deploy, but I'm still facing this error message while deploying. I've installed previously python3-dev, python-dev and_build_essentials packages. I've tried also to add wheel package in requirements.txt. I'm working in linux mint 19.03 (ubuntu 18.04). Any Idea?

Building wheels for collected packages: pulumi-aws, grpcio
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pulumi-aws ... error
  Complete output from command /home/ayeste/Documentos/Pulumi/aws-python/venv/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-zkdm1y8t/pulumi-aws/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpqfs9agflpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
  /usr/lib/python3.6/distutils/dist.py:261: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'long_description_content_type'
    warnings.warn(msg)
  usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: -c --help-commands
     or: -c cmd --help
  
  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for pulumi-aws
  Running setup.py clean for pulumi-aws
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for grpcio ... error
  Complete output from command /home/ayeste/Documentos/Pulumi/aws-python/venv/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-zkdm1y8t/grpcio/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpgydsg87cpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
  Found cython-generated files...
  usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
     or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
     or: -c --help-commands
     or: -c cmd --help
  
  error: invalid command 'bdist_wheel'
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for grpcio
  Running setup.py clean for grpcio
Failed to build pulumi-aws grpcio
Installing collected packages: protobuf, grpcio, pulumi, arpeggio, attrs, parver, semver, pulumi-aws
  Running setup.py install for grpcio ... \
done
  Running setup.py install for pulumi-aws ... done
Successfully installed arpeggio-1.9.2 attrs-19.3.0 grpcio-1.28.1 parver-0.3.0 protobuf-3.11.3 pulumi-2.1.0 pulumi-aws-2.2.0 semver-2.9.1

You need to make sure the wheel package is available inside your virtualenv, activate it and try running

pip3 install wheel

Ok, I will try and give you some feedback. 🙂

Hi guys, did you resolve the issue? I have exactly the same problem with Ubuntu 18 and Debian 10. I tried every workaround with no success. I have opened a ticket against pulumi support and waiting an answer. I was wondering if you fixed already.