Is there a way to run a command in a pod deployed via a HelmRelease? A vendor's software we use only supports initial configuration through running their CLI inside the freshly deployed pod. Otherwise we have to man-in-the-loop do the initial user configuration by hand... which means pulumi orchestrate the remaining configuration of the software.

Have you looked into the pulumi k8s operator? I just learned about it, looks promising, might be what you're looking for?? https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/continuous-delivery/pulumi-kubernetes-operator/

that still doesn't provide a way of executing a command in an existing pod.

K, not sure I fully understand, but I'm seeing some stuff online about using ssm and step functions https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/running-a-kubernetes-job-in-amazon-eks-on-aws-fargate-using-aws-stepfunctions/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/pod-execution-role.html

ideally i'd like to replicate

kubectl exec

I believe you can probably use the

Command

package to do this (using

remote.Command

): https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-command

i was hoping for something that called the actual kuberntes exec api instead of shelling out to a host command