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hi all! can i use pulumi to install softwares on vps (not from cloud providers). basically i want to do the equivalent with pulumi to what i can do with ansible: providing username and password(or ssh keys) so it can ssh into the host and do some software update.

Closest thing I could find is <https://www.pulumi.com/blog/architecture-as-code-vm/|this guide> and the associated <https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-ts-ec2-provisioners|github repo>

Or a <https://www.pulumi.com/blog/deploying-minecraft-on-azure/|Python example> and it's <https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/azure-py-minecraft-server|github code>

thanks very much tom, excited to find these resources.

after reading the guide, i see there is a step to config pub &amp; private keys:
```$ cat rsa.pub | pulumi config set publicKey --
$ cat rsa | pulumi config set privateKey --secret --```
and in the `___main__.py_` there is `OSProfileArgs` to setup the pubkey on the VM.

cool, but i don't use cloud providers, how can i setup pulumi to enable it to access *all* of my VMs?

seems like it's feasible: i just need to use a for loop to iterate over each of my VMs, then build a connection(which is not tied to a cloud provider), then i can run whatever script for it.