Hi, I am new to Pulumi and I noticed that contrair to Terraform, that the tf files just need to be in the same directory, Pulumi deploys from the

index.ts

. I am separating my infrastructure into separate file for sake of organization and separation. But I noticed that I not only have to import to index.ts, but I have to use it somehow. Even it is a simple export of output in the end for Pulumi to deploy whatever it is on the import. Is there a better way to do this? A best practice maybe that most of you are following?

We are using real code now, so the rules of the runtime (in this case Typescript) apply here. The entrypoint to your “program” is

index.ts

. You can structure to multiple files, but you have to

import

them in your

index.ts

file.

hmmm, well, that is basically what I said.

To add to what @limited-rainbow-51650 said, you can control the entrypoint for Pulumi just as you would any Node program by configuring the

main

property in your

package.json

— for example, you could have

"main": "infrastructure.ts"

as your entry point instead of the default

index.ts

But I noticed that I not only have to import to index.ts, but I have to use it somehow

Note that if you use

import "./vpc"

syntax, you do not need to "use" the outputs of the imported module for it to be included. This is a slightly unfortunate TypeScript gotcha even outside of Pulumi. https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/9191#issuecomment-226258610