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&gt; Is pulumi automation api same as <https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk>
No, tfcdk is a command line tool and doesn't have a programmatic API like Automation API. Also, tfcdk just builds and runs templates. The Automation API executes your code in process, meaning that you can debug it, use your favorite frameworks, etc.

&gt; But in case of Pulumi - there is no interim DSL generated right?
This is correct, there is no intermediate with Pulumi. We execute your code directly, and that builds the cloud resource graph. Once the resource graph is built, the pulumi engine takes care of provisioning cloud resources.

&gt; So the infra deployment capability is provided by the lib as a feature and does not need an extra step of running the deployer
Yes, with Automation API you create `stack` objects, and are able to call `stack.up()` to do the deployment programmatically and get the results.