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Hi <@U088N7494KU> wondering are there any examples of pulumi executable provider used without Pulumi registry. Or is it not possible ?

Hi Maxim, here are the <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/guides/building-extending/packages/executable-plugin/|docs> for building an executable provider. It links to this <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-provider-boilerplate#test-against-the-example|boilerplate repo>, which walks you through the process end-to-end. You don't have to publish to the Pulumi registry for this.  For distribution you can host the binary anywhere and set `pluginDownloadURL` in the schema to point at the location of the binary.

I have tried this but when I host the binary in github releases its not clear how to install this using `pulumi package add`

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_package_add/>

When plugin name is specified it looks in Pulumi Registry.
When github is specified it doesn't use releases and installs provider directly essentially using it as source-based plugin

Right, `pulumi package add <http://github.com/|github.com/><org>/<repo>` is the source-based path, not a fetch-from-releases shortcut. For an executable plugin distributed via GitHub releases, point `package add` at the schema and let `pluginDownloadURL` handle the binary:

1. In `schema.json`, set:
```   "pluginDownloadURL": "<github://api.github.com/><org>/<repo>"```
2. Host the schema somewhere reachable (your release assets work) and run:
```   pulumi package add <https://github.com/><org>/<repo>/releases/download/v0.1.0/schema.json```
Pulumi reads the schema to generate the SDK, then uses `pluginDownloadURL` plus name/version to pull the binary at runtime. The release assets need to follow `pulumi-resource-<name>-vX.Y.Z-<os>-<arch>.tar.gz`.

<@U088N7494KU> does this use github token to auth to private github repos?

<@U079WJ1QAHX> can you help with that?I am trying to understand how to get pulumi to download `schema.json` file from private repository. There seem to be no direct support in CLI for that.

`pulumi package add` doesn’t currently support fetching `schema.json` from a private GitHub repo. So the schema needs to be either publicly reachable, downloaded locally first and passed as `./schema.json`, or served from somewhere the CLI can access directly. The provider binaries themselves can still be private via `pluginDownloadURL`.