I'm trying to use the GitLab provider with a private GitLab instance via VPN, but although I've configured the

gitlab:token

and

gitlab:base_url

config values, I get a network error:

error: Get "<https://gitlab.company.com/api/v4/user>": dial tcp: lookup <http://gitlab.company.com|gitlab.company.com> on 8.8.8.8:53: no such host

Where company.com is the redacted version of my actual host. I've double checked using cURL that I can access the instance given the access token that Pulumi uses and it all works great. Any ideas?

It's trying to resolve your host on Google's public DNS. You said it is on your private VPN, you need to use a DNS that resolves internal hostnames for your network

Thanks. Yeah, just noticed this. I'm a bit baffled that the connection works with cURL or my browser, but not with Pulumi.

curl uses a different DNS resolver library to Go programs, so the path to its preferred DNS is different. I can't remember the exact difference now

https://golang.org/pkg/net/#hdr-Name_Resolution

It can use a pure Go resolver that sends DNS requests directly to the servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf, or it can use a cgo-based resolver that calls C library routines such as getaddrinfo and getnameinfo.

By default the pure Go resolver is used, because a blocked DNS request consumes only a goroutine, while a blocked C call consumes an operating system thread.

Yup, confirmed that. I'm on macOS and it looks there are issues open regarding this for both Terraform and the golang HTTP client: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/3536 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12524

I think that would depend more on your system. I'm using an Ubuntu variant, it comes with the resolvconf service as a local dns server, the /etc/resolv.conf points to localhost and the service proxies and caches requests to the real dns server.

Yup, definitely. However, after some more digging, it seems that Go 1.14.3 fixes this issues and Pulumi was upgraded from Go 1.13.x to 1.14.x two days ago. So, I'm looking forward to the Pulumi upgrade 🙂 https://github.com/golang/go/commit/f6b42a53e5ac1f1c3f3b1c9ed2407e68e0b637a0 https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/commit/45e1917a30f99ca29c4439e777a614322460aa6d

Great!