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<@U036KV0KSDS> doing `pip install pulumi_docker` should bring in the binary

you only need to do `pulumi plugin install` in rare circumstances

the plugin acquisition happens inside the pulumi engine, it's changed quite a bit since November!

here's the `setup.py` for pulumi-docker, it runs it for you: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-docker/blob/master/sdk/python/setup.py#L14-L29>

Not sure if you're staff, but have you considered
```pulumi plugin install package docker```
...and it detects that you're using Python, and does the `pip install` for you. (basically inverted from before)

If not, I can open a ticket for this.
It feels cleaner, as you're just using the CLI, and not any of the language-specific tools.

EDIT: let's see how this goes :slightly_smiling_face: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/9174>

i am indeed staff :slightly_smiling_face:
i suspect that's not the workflow we're going to go with. We want users to use the native language package managers to install all the dependencies, rather than the pulumi CLI