Hey! Thank you guys for the work you do with Pulumi, I’m really enjoying working with it. I’m trying to generate a provider for Rundeck, and I had a question. I’m following this (the pulumi-tf-provider-boilerplate). I’m especially confused about the plugin (perhaps because publishing an NPM library on a private registry is something we do all the time. Moving forward with the plugin isn’t super clear). The

make build_sdks

command generates an npm library and a binary plugin. I can see the plugin:

$ pulumi plugin ls | grep rundeck
rundeck     resource  0.2.0                            40 MB   2 weeks ago    2 weeks ago

But now — how do I actually get this deployed somewhere so that it’s usable in a production environment? Here’s my fork of the

pulumi-tf-provider-boilerplate

, after having followed all the steps. Any ideas?

Hi @worried-honey-61577 I am looking at your provider right now

Thanks Paul!

so just to clarify you are fine with the npm publish part right?

Yep. It’s getting the library to install the plugin part that confuses me. Like where is the plugin deployed to? Is there some registry for it? How does the library know which plugins to install?

You could grab the build scripts that @billowy-army-68599 added to the pulumi-scaleway repo As you can see, that provider just pushes to the github package repo

Mmmm ok that makes a bit more sense! Let me take a look at that Also I’m happy to be the guinea pig and help you guys write any documentation on this

hey, just catching up! my provider is here: https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-scaleway

Op, had the wrong build script 😅

so what happens is, when we build our SDKs, we inject this file: https://github.com/pulumi/scripts/blob/master/ci/install-pulumi-plugin.js into the packaged SDK, It doesn't happen inside the repo, it happens at build time

Ok, that makes sense. What specific server is it? Is it storage bucket you self-host? I’ve seen this a few times now

<s3://rel.pulumi.com/releases/plugins/${PLUGIN_PACKAGE_NAME}>

you can probably remove a lot of this and do it in the make target with

jq

jq '.scripts.postinstall += "pulumi plugin install resource rundeck $(PROVIDER_VERSION) --server <https://bintray.com/pulumi-resource-rundeck>"' > package.json

Ahhhhh ok. Yeah we use Artifactory, so something private like that would be ideal for us

you just need a http server to upload them to, artifactory would work, or just your own s3 bucket as well

Ok that’s awesome. Thank you guys so much! I’m sure I’ll be back with more questions later 🙂