I ve been trying to find a decent description of this but co

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I ve been trying to find a decent description of this but couldn t find it anywhere What is the difference between the classic and native version of plugins

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Classic is usually bridged Terraform it uses Terraform s schema as a logical starting point and re implements the same stuff

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Native uses a cloud provider s generic and auto discoverable APIs

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

When a new feature is released by a cloud provider hopefully both their APIs the resource specific one and the auto discoverable one are released at the same time So Pulumi just needs to point their code generating magic at the provider s start point and run New version is released

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

But for the classic versions first Terraform has to update their SDK presumably using the resource specific API Then Pulumi can point their code generating magic at that And then new version released

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

So one extra step and it s a step that can take quite a while

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Flip side is at least for AWS the auto discoverable API Cloud Control iirc isn t fully featured yet and doesn t seem to be updated as fast as the resource specific APIs Which is a little disappointing

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Yep Cloud Control <https aws amazon com cloudcontrolapi >

blue-leather-96987 · Answer

Thank you this was very insightful I was hoping to use GCP Native but I ran into issues since the import is not fully working yet