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Have you tried <https://github.com/localstack/pulumi-local>? I don't know if it uses the session context in the pulumilocal wrapper

<@U02UUJ4397H> thanks but that's for localstack which. I want pulumi to use a local backend ie file based backend

But currently you need to login to the file first and then do your commands

I think you can define the backend in the pulumi project yaml file

check this: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pulumi-yaml/> and `backend` field

+ there’s an environment variable `PULUMI_BACKEND_URL` that can be used to overwrite it more dynamically:
<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/environment-variables/>

<@U02AB9VLGJH> is that what you were looking for?