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I just saw <https pulumi community slack com archives C84L4E3N1 p1635911681308500 thread ts=1635911465 307800 amp cid=C84L4E3N1> So just to be clear if I see a Python example online which has ```import pulumi docker as docker``` I need to follow both below two steps Step One ```pulumi plugin install package docker 3 1 0``` Step Two ```source venv bin activate pip install pulumi docker``` It s not clear from Lee s message how the automatic thing can happen for Node Python He points to a Go script which I can t interpret

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

< agreeable king 2755> doing `pip install pulumi docker` should bring in the binary

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

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

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

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

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

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>

agreeable-king-2755 · Answer

ok cheers for the reply +1

agreeable-king-2755 · Answer

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>

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

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