Has anyone compared pulumi-github with the GitHub ...
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strong-wolf-79326
05/19/2025, 8:10 AMHas anyone compared pulumi-github with the GitHub Provider for terraform?
In my experience, the terraform provider is fiddly, incomplete, and not yet ready for automation - at least not for all the GitHub infra I'd like to manage.
Is pulumi-github substantially better? (Even though I assume it, like the tf provider, both leverage the same golang API?)
OTOH, I've found very few (2?) reports from anyone using IaC to mange GitHub itself, so I wonder if I'm looking at the problem in the wrong way. Like, maybe what I need is an IDP, Backstage scaffolding, or the like. Or maybe I should separate user management from repo management, and use different tools for each? (Which are generally used by different groups of users)
Any pointers appreciated.
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wonderful-monkey-84949
05/19/2025, 10:13 AMThe
pulumi-githubwonderful-monkey-84949
05/19/2025, 10:15 AMHaving said that, we use it internally for repo membership and permissions, I've no big complaints.
wonderful-monkey-84949
05/19/2025, 10:16 AMAuth is a lot easier if you use Pulumi deployments for it though, because Github authentication is handled by the Pulumi Github app.
wonderful-monkey-84949
05/19/2025, 10:17 AMGenerating Github authentication tokens manually is a pest, and I've never found a decent way of scripting it.
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strong-wolf-79326
05/19/2025, 4:20 PMThanks. There was a helpful article about Pulumi's use written in 2022, too.
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