What s the best way to create presets in Pulumi in Python Fo

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What s the best way to create presets in Pulumi in Python For example I want to create GCP projects with certain defaults e g don t create the default network but I still want to allow end users to override those defaults and at the same time dont want to maintain a ton of boilerplate if I don t have to

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

I think you re looking for a Component Resource <https www pulumi com docs intro concepts resources > You can define a class with sane defaults that can be overridden

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

I have an example somewhere if you need one

shy-football-10348 · Answer

i d love to see an example

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

Ah that looks like what I m after Thanks

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

you can either import them locally from a file or publish them to pypi to reuse them

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

< billowy army 68599> Is there any way to skip defining all the arguments to a particular resource again

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

what do you mean

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

Like I want my resource to be a drop in replacement to the `gcp organizations Project` resource I still want it to accept all the same kwargs etc

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

I just want the ability to change the default values

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

i m finding it hard to visualize what you re saying would you mind sharing some pseudo code

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

Are you familiar with Ansible at all

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

not in a long time

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

Hah

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

I wish I was less familiar

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

I basically want this <https docs ansible com ansible latest user guide playbooks module defaults html>

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

I want the ability to specify a set of default arguments to Resources so that I 1 don t have to maintain an entire resource definition 2 Don t clobber user specified values 3 Can retroactively go back into Pulumi code and insert my custom modules with as little friction as possible

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

ahh yeah we don t have that as a built in you d have to specify the values for your class and then pass them through to the resources

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

actually let me get someone smarter to chime in standby

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

This is where I am almost envious of monkey patching in Ruby smile

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

And then I realize that those are Bad Thoughts

red-match-15116 · Answer

I think you ll have to create a wrapper function with the defaults defined to do that

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

Yeah that s sort of what I m trying to avoid

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

Because it s just a ton of Boilerplate

red-match-15116 · Answer

well don t know what to tell you friend

red-match-15116 · Answer

Maybe you ll come up with a better way and then you can tell us about it

ripe-knife-11053 · Answer

Thanks for your help