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d
Hey all! I'm trying to use the official Pulumi github action from here but it seems like the action is built with a known EKS authentication bug because it's using a very old version of kubectl that hasn't been updated for 8 months or so... is this on the docket to get squared away? I cannot use the Pulumi github action until then 😐
b
@damp-room-84921 - the pulumi github action is a typescript action, are you still using the docker based one? the version of Kubectl is actually from the github runner, and you can change it using this action: https://github.com/Azure/setup-kubectl
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d
Sorry; we're in AWS.
I've been trying to use https://github.com/pulumi/actions#pulumi---nodejs-runtime--pulumi-managed-backend as we're using TS for our Pulumi
b
that action isn't an azure thing, it'll just install kubectl into your github actions runner
just try the following:
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name: Pulumi
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  up:
    name: Update
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: azure/setup-kubectl@v2.0
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 14.x
      - run: npm install
      - uses: pulumi/actions@v3
        with:
          command: up
          stack-name: dev
        env:
          PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
d
will do; stand by
b
it might be worth taking some time to understand how actions work, each step is a unique thing, and if you don't invoke a step you get the default version of a tool
d
Thanks
Had to edit it a bit
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name: Pulumi
on:
  - pull_request

jobs:
  up:
    name: Preview
    runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, x64]
    steps:
      - uses: azure/setup-kubectl@v2.0
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 14.x
      - run: npm install
      - uses: pulumi/actions@v3
        with:
          command: preview
          stack-name: xxxxx
        env:
          PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
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Error: Could not find aws CLI for EKS. See <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-eks> for installation instructions.
I've been down this rabbit hole 🙂
b
huh, can you file an issue with github.com/pulumi/pulumi-eks
that shouldn't be happening
d
This... is how I ended up here
😞
b
oh wait
no, that's not asking for kubectl
its asking for the aws cli
d
It's looking for 
aws eks
afaict
b
yeah, which is completely different from kubectl
you should be able to do
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run: pip3 install aws-cli
again, this isn't a Pulumi problem, its a github actions problem 🙂
d
I'd argue that if your documentation points to a pulumi developed github action for customers to use and it doesn't work as described, that would be a pulumi problem - but I won't fight ya over it 🙂
I think there's other issues with this action as described - even before hitting the awscli missing issue, npm install fails to install all the deps (but does not report failure)
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There was an error installing the resource provider plugin. It looks like `pulumi` is not installed on your system. Please visit
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name: Pulumi
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  up:
    name: Update
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: azure/setup-kubectl@v2.0
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 14.x
      - run: npm install
      - uses: pulumi/actions@v3
        with:
          command: up
          stack-name: dev
        env:
          PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PULUMI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
The example calls for 
npm install
and explodes when looking for pulumi cli, which doesn't exist until it reaches the `pulumi/actions#v3`step.. I don't understand how this could ever work? Maybe I'm grossly misunderstanding something here?
l
Hello @damp-room-84921, is there any output I could see from the failing 
npm install
? I'm using the Pulumi GH action succesfully, with only a small difference though: 
actions/setup-node@v1
is highly outdated. Can you update to 
v2
or 
v3
? I'm using it with 
v2
and also have the Pulumi GH action after the 
npm install
.
d
Hey @limited-rainbow-51650. It's this for every module it attempts to grab:
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There was an error installing the resource provider plugin. It looks like `pulumi` is not installed on your system. Please visit <https://pulumi.com/> to install the Pulumi CLI.
You may try manually installing the plugin by running `pulumi plugin install resource docker v3.0.0`
I can swap to nodev3 and see if it budges.
b
@damp-room-84921 Ringo is advocating chaning the github action version:
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- name: Setup Node
        uses: actions/setup-node@v2
        with:
          node-version: 14.x
not the pulumi provider version
d
Yeah, that's how I interpreted his message 🙂
ty
l
@damp-room-84921 this puzzles me. In Pulumiverse, the community around Pulumi, we have a project where we automate that Github organization using Pulumi. Here is the workflow file: https://github.com/pulumiverse/infra/blob/main/.github/workflows/push.yml and here is the latest run: https://github.com/pulumiverse/infra/runs/6394331956?check_suite_focus=true
d
I'll come back to this shortly; i'm currently stuck behind the 
<http://client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1|client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1>
bug
e
Let me know how it turns out, I can provide you with a working Workflow.
I have a few examples for AWS as well, if you need 🙂
d
Sure! let me see what AWS examples you've got. I finally just got around the IDMS issue when using a self-hosted runner. That was a blast.
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