I’m running into some issues when attempting to run

pulumi up

in CI.

error: no resource plugin 'kubernetes' found in the workspace or on your $PATH

I looked into existing GitHub issues but none of the solutions posted there seems to be working out.

What does

pulumi plugin ls

tell you in this environment? Do you have a

pulumi-resource-kubernetes

plugin installed? Normally you would acquire it by running

npm install

or similar.

It was returning nothing. I realized the issue was CI caching. When running

yarn install

with a warm cache, install scripts don’t run and that’s how

@pulumi/kubernetes

sets up the plugin. Setting

PULUMI_HOME

and caching that directory together with

node_modules

fixed it for me.