I've been using Pulumi in production for nearly a year - very happy with it. But our organization needs to refactor our applications we've built using Pulumi - in particular, we need to decompose some monolithic stacks down into some smaller ones. Is there a way to transfer resources between stacks without deleting them? We have some resources, i.e. databases and file storage, that we really do not want to delete / recreate from backup

you can import the new resources into the new stack can't you?

yeah that's what I was hoping to find - some guidance on how to do that exactly

https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/pulumi_import/ I'd expect something like that...

these resources are already managed by Pulumi

Not sure how it will handle with dependency trees though. I'd recommend what I did last time... generate the stack without any dependencies, just the things the "bottom" tier (dbs, etc.). then import then resources manually using the CLI. then build it up and import the rest as you go... Labour intensive, but it works.

if this is the best route, I'd be happy to give it a go

You'd need to have the resource in both stacks.

Labour intensive, but it works.

I didn't expect anything less 😛

it will still exist in the original stack, but you'll have it in the new stack too... then just iterate the new stack until you get to the point where a

pulumi up

in the new stack shows no changes.

That sounds like the way to go

and if someone has a better way, I'm toooootally all ears...

going to be literally testing this in production - fun times

I thought you were over last year... all the "before times" are a blur though...