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Hi <@U0150MZEVLP>

I am looking at your provider right now

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 <@UCWG26BH7> added to the pulumi-scaleway repo

As you can see, that provider just pushes to the github package repo

pulumi plugin install resource scaleway --server-url <https://github-package-location> will be able to take the tar.gz created

<@UCWG26BH7> we should probably record some videos on this to make this easier for people...

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

I’m assuming you’re talking about <https://github.com/dchauviere/pulumi-scaleway/blob/master/scripts/publish-plugin.sh|this build script>

So you upload it to some storage bucket, and then run
```pulumi plugin install resource &lt;name&gt; --server-url &lt;location-of-storage-bucket&gt;```
?

How does that occur upon the installation of an NPM library, like if I were to
```npm install @pulumi/gcp```

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

Op, had the wrong build script :sweat_smile:

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

It's added using this script
<https://github.com/pulumi/scripts/blob/master/ci/add-plugin-installer-script.js>

I never got round to implementing automatic plugin acquisition for scaleway and rke, but if you want to do it, you'll need to add `install-pulumi-plugin.js` with a `--server` option

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>"' &gt; package.json```

I personally upload all my releases to bintray and then set this param
<https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-scaleway/blob/master/provider/resources.go#L84>

`<http://rel.pulumi.com|rel.pulumi.com>` is the default for pulumi owned plugins

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 :slightly_smiling_face: