Is there any easy way without juggling configs/sta...
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fast-florist-41572
10/20/2021, 1:11 PMIs there any easy way without juggling configs/stacks to be able to deploy pulumi to something locally without it trying to store the state remotely?
The example is, we have local kubernetes clusters for dev and I want to configure them with baseline services, such as ingress and databases etc. But it doesn't make sense that it has a remote stack tracking it as it is only needed for each dev locally
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prehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:28 PMnot really sure what you want to achieve but if you just want to use pulumi to configure LOCAL k8s cluster, you can use local state backend
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fast-florist-41572
10/20/2021, 1:30 PMThanks @prehistoric-activity-61023 that's what I suspected. Its just cumbersome as people will need to login and logout depending on what you are doing. The idea is to have consistency with deployments. Whether I deploy yaml/helm to a local env vs our staging and prod. I would prefer it either all uses pulumi or not
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prehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:31 PMdo you want to deploy the same project to local envs as well as staging/prod?
prehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:32 PMI think you can specify the state backend in
Pulumi.yamlprehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:33 PMhttps://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pulumi-yaml/ (see the
backendprehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:33 PManother option I’d check, I’m pretty sure it was possible to override this using env variable
prehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:33 PMso in case of local development, I’d wrap this in a shell script that would use that env var
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fast-florist-41572
10/20/2021, 1:34 PMAh awesome, that could actually work nicely. Let me give that a try thanks
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prehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:35 PMsee https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/environment-variables/ (
PULUMI_BACKEND_URLprehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:36 PMso normally you will use Pulumi Service (or other remote state backend of your choice)
prehistoric-activity-61023
10/20/2021, 1:37 PMand in case of local development you’d use:
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PULUMI_BACKEND_URL=file://./local-state.json pulumi up -s local