Hey is it possible to deploy a local cluster using minikube/kind/k3s using pulumi?

Pulumi uses standard k8s credentials, so as long as your local system uses a standard

kubectl

authentication system, yes, it definitely can. The main issue to deal with is that Pulumi saves your authentication mechanism in its stack state - so you either need a per-dev stack, or you need to have a consistent authentication schema across your local dev instances.

Oh sorry I may have phrased that poorly, I mean create a local cluster

I am afraid we don't have a minikube/k3s/kind provider at the moment. Its an interesting request though!

Yeah it would be fun for automating dev/test environments, maybe down the road!