Pasted from above: Hey guys, nice to meet y'all [12:38 AM] I'm starting off using Pulumi on GCP [12:39 AM] I had some observations I thought could be useful for the direction of the product [12:39 AM] I come from AWS + CloudFormation [12:39 AM] One thing I noticed off the bat is how Pulumi uses OAuth natively in order to authenticate to an orchestration server [12:40 AM] I wrap my development runtime using Docker and I prefer credential files that I can mount into a Docker volume [12:40 AM] Pulumi makes me pass in an auth token w/o conventional

~/.pulumi/credentials

or

~/.pulumi/config

like

~/.aws

has [12:40 AM] or click on a link to a website [12:41 AM] Also not sure how much I like the

venv/

configuration, since I ran my Docker container as a default root user to template out a PoC the file / directory permissions are different b/w host + container and it's a snag to work that out [12:43 AM] I'm also not sure whether Pulumi can pass in env variables and output variables from the stack, I think it can I just haven't discovered it yet, but CF makes this trivial since there's a top-level keyword in the docs [12:44 AM] Not sure how much I like the

curl -fsSL <https://get.pulumi.com> | sh

  since I wanted to lock down the Pulumi version, but I think there's perf differences between curling the tarball directory and having the script do it for you [12:45 AM] Curling the tarball URL directly was too slow to be practical imho [12:45 AM] I really wish Pulumi would support Cloud CDN, I think this is a GCP-specific issue as GCP Deployment Manager also raises no backends with this explicitly, vs. AWS's CloudFront CloudFormation resource [12:46 AM] Instead React.js deployment docs reference GCP App Engine which at minimum costs $18 / mo. (imho I think that's a ripoff given I'm running a blog using an S3 bucket + CloudFront for a few cents every month) [12:47 AM] Hope it helps, I'm sure Pulumi has great things ahead and I'm looking forward to using it

I'll go ahead and try to maintain one thread for any future feedback