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Hi Gordon, so to quote the Pulumi docs on this they state,
&gt; To use Pulumi without <http://pulumi.com|pulumi.com>, log in using `pulumi login --local` or by logging in to an alternative backend.
Bit more info here, <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/>.

Just to follow on from what Graham said: Out of the box we have a service that we run to store your state. It also provides a locking solution so that you can't run concurrent updates. If you don't want to use that, you can use one of the backends that are on the page that Graham suggested, but you won't get the same locking, nor will you get the RBAC controls amongst other things