Has anyone used pulumi along pipenv/poetry or other similar tools? i'm curious about if there is one that suits it more, and also about the best path to distribute pulumi custom components for other projects

We’ve used pipenv a fair bit internally and it’s worked well enough. Though, we recently added support in Pulumi for creating and using a virtual environment (for new projects) and will probably move to using that more going forward over pipenv. Some more info here: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/languages/python/#virtual-environments

I use poetry. Pipenv is a trainwreck, unfortunately.

I also like poetry - found pipenv was extremely slow and somewhat buggy when I tried it