When I create a custom

pulumi.ComponentResource

subclass, how can I define the

opts

so I have the same VSCode IntelliSense as for the default Pulumi libs. Example could be handy. 😉

There’s an exported interface for the opts

In this case, are you referring to the

ClusterOptions

interface?

‘pulumi.ComponentResourceOptions’ Set that as the type for your opts in the constructor for your component class

CompomentResourceOptions

is used to pass some resource options to the Pulumi engine. I think Ringo is talking about components args with custom properties that are specific to the component only. If that's the case you can define a custom interface (similar to

ClusterOptions

from your example above) and have that as an argument of your constructor in addition to also accepting

ComponentResourceOptions

as a param as well. The latter will allow you to set things like

provider

,

parent

,

dependsOn

etc.

I was wondering where to put some standard (like azure, kubernetes) providers when I build a

ComponentResource

that internally creates resources with those standard providers. I ended up putting them in the args as for some cases (e.g. cert-manager) I need both, azure and kubernetes providers and I want to have them defined explicitly, not using the ambient (default) ones. Is this the intended way or should I have some special

ComponentResourceOptions

that support more than one provider? For now I’m always passing providers explicitly but this might not be the case if I build some reusable library and people want to leverage their default providers.

@rhythmic-finland-36256 just noticed your question. I don’t think you need to put the providers inside your custom args. Just declare

ComponentResourceOptions

as one of the params of your component’s constructor and pass it there. Here’s an example:

export class MyComponent extends pulumi.ComponentResource {
  constructor(args: MyComponentArgs, opts: pulumi.ComponentResourceOptions) {
  }
}

then you can use it as:

new MyComponent({}, {
  providers:{
   "azure": azureProvider,
   "kubernetes": k8sProvider
  }
});

Is this what you are asking about?

Oh, nice. Thanks! I didn’t know there was also

providers

besides the single

provider

field. Does passing them as

ComponentResourceOptions

to a

ComponentResource

then automatically use them in all child resources without explicitly passing them to e.g. a

kubernetes.Deployment

?

It uses those providers if you parent all the resources to the class

@busy-umbrella-36067 is right. See https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#components. Definitely worth reading that whole page to make sure you are aware of all the good stuff Pulumi's programming model offers.

Thanks for that pointer. I’m sure I read that page some time ago but somehow missed that part with the

ComponentResourceOptions

providers list. Everything I wanted to know was already well documented. That docs really rock 💪