To support Pulumi plugins to be downloaded from more various sources, the

pulumi plugin install

command needs a thorough revision. I made a proposal for this, hoping to get this in the v4.0 release on time, in the corresponding ticket: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/9007#issuecomment-1101347426 I hope we can get the discussion started!

@limited-rainbow-51650 love the suggestions! Just wanna make sure you're aware that installing from GitHub releases is already supported 😃

Yes, but not from 3rd party public repos AFAICS

They sure are!

Hmmm. Then I don't know how to configure this for the Pulumiverse ones.

afaik that won't work for private repos. I did start experimenting with ideas to support this (see https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/commit/2396d56c6d1b0637b238611b08f948afb4c796c5 for one example). I'm sure we can come up with something workable before 4.0.

excuse me for butting in, but pulumiverse repos aren’t private, are they?

I don't know about pulumiverse repos, was just a comment that the plain download URL we currently support won't work for private repos and so if the pulumiverse repors are private that will be an issue. I think Ringos proposal is fine, it will let us use the github api which clearly does work for private repos.

okay I’m all caught up 🙂

But then where would that end 🤯

(also, this just tells me that we need to socialize what the Pulumiverse is more inside Pulumi! it’s very cool and a growing and key component of our community…and we are all part of the community!)