Hi - Quite new to Pulumi but not to Python. Trying out examples, logged into pulumi, and when calling pulumi new it tries to create the base project in virtual env. Is it possible to create w/o in a venv? I am installing the pulumi python libs in a virtual machine to begin with and prefer not to work in venv. Perhaps there is a way to call pulumi new w/o venv?

You can pass

-g

(short for

--generate-only

) to

pulumi new

to generate the project only. With that flag, it won’t create a stack, save config, or install dependencies. Alternatively, you can let

pulumi new

create the virtual environment, but then after it runs, delete the

venv

directory and modify the

Pulumi.yaml

file changing:

runtime:
  name: python
  options:
    virtualenv: venv

To be just:

runtime: python

Thanks Justin trying it out and hopefully that solves it all. What do you mean by 'create a stack' - the files necessary for the project? Is that not the same as generating the project?

What do you mean by ‘create a stack’

pulumi new

generates a project. By default,

pulumi new

also creates a new stack (internally running the equivalent of

pulumi stack init

). You can read more about the difference between a project and stack at https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#program-structure When

-g

is specified to

pulumi new

it won’t create the stack, so it’d be up to you to run

pulumi stack init

afterwards to create one.

For python developers who already have a preferred method of creating and maintaining python virtual environments, can we get an option for

pulumi new

to not create a virtual environment, but do everything else like it did before?