Hello, Quick Question: can I use Custom Resource t...
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swift-island-2275
10/07/2021, 10:21 AMHello, Quick Question: can I use Custom Resource to control state of a resource that I manage in a custom way ? I am working with Atlas MongoDB provider and I'd like to be able to create a database as a part of stack. In order to do it, I need to use Mongo driver. At the same time, I'd like to be able to keep the state of the created databases in Pulumi, as for me a database is part of infra.
When I try to use a CustomResource class, I need to provide a type. If I just make up the type, I get exception like
error: unrecognized resource type (Check):l
little-cartoon-10569
10/07/2021, 8:20 PMAs I understand it, a CustomResource is used for resources created by normal providers. I think what you want is a dynamic provider, which will you can use to create "dynamic" Resources (which aren't any more dynamic than normal resources.. they're just created by dynamic providers 🙂 ). There's more detail here: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/#dynamicproviders
little-cartoon-10569
10/07/2021, 8:21 PMYou can also create a full-on non-dynamic provider if you want to support these sorts of resources in multiple languages. But dynamic providers are easier.
little-cartoon-10569
10/07/2021, 8:22 PMThe important idea to start with is that you don't put code that interacts with an external provider (like mongo) into a resource class. It always goes into a provider class.
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