quick question is there a way for me to consume pulumi as a

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quick question is there a way for me to consume pulumi as a library in for example a CLI of my own and if so is there any example of doing so I ve been playing with the automation api but it seems to require the pulumi CLI to be installed which I m less interested in

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

as it stands the automation API does require the Pulumi CLI to be installed yes we don t envisage that changing in the near term

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

you could in theory talk directly to the engine but that hasn t been implemented yet

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

okay good to know how much pain and suffering am I in for if I wanted to try talking directly to the engine

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

I wouldn t want to do it myself

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

what s the reason behind not wanting the CLI installed

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

I m looking to build a CLI of my own of which infrastructure creation is only a small part the only place pulumi would come into play is for our end users to bootstrap their infra in AWS or GCP and then create a few VMs that run an initial kubernetes cluster after that they d be using other functions of our CLI to interact with that cluster as their management plane for creating subsequent clusters via cluster api which is a big way of just saying I don t want to have to ask users to install yet another CLI if I don t have to

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

but also just seems like a good way to have some support heartache because of different pulumi CLI versions installed and whatnot

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

that s understandable i think you ll have less fun using the engine directly I m afraid you d have to reimplement the whole thing as a package disappointed

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

while I ve got you maybe I can ask you a question that brought me down this path I ve been messing with the automation API as I said but when coupling it with some of our libraries I ve run into the following error ```failed to run update exit status 255 ncode 255 nstdout Updating spencer test n n nstderr error failed to discover plugin requirements grpc error unmarshalling request failed to unmarshal pulumirpc GetRequiredPluginsRequest n n```

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

any ideas on what s actually going on under the hood that causes this to fail I feel like it s some mismatch between the grpc go mods between our other pkgs and pulumi but I haven t been able to reproduce it even with a `replace` to force the grpc version

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

hrm without seeing the code i wouldn t be totally sure

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

yeah that s fair I ll keep trying to reproduce with something more minimal than my current code base was just wondering if you ve come across that error before google only showed some python related issues for a while ago

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

you re using Go did you do `workspace InstallPlugins`

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

indeed disappointed

acoustic-iron-92969 · Answer

not sure why it s falling over tbh will keep digging