Hey there is there a way to use pulumi purely as a library N

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Hey there is there a way to use pulumi purely as a library No `pulumi up| ` purely from withing existing code

echoing-dinner-19531 · Answer

Look at the automation api <https www pulumi com docs guides automation api >

hundreds-yacht-71603 · Answer

Nice That s a good starting point Thank you

hundreds-yacht-71603 · Answer

Not directed you I see it as a general pattern I find it interesting that as Code seems to always require a local tool rather than only a library cdk pulumi all require the commands to be present Is there a specific reason everyone chooses this Why would it be worse to just expect someone to instantiate a sort of config or provide options and just run the code `go run main go my personal flags `

echoing-dinner-19531 · Answer

In my experience having built a couple of tools like this it s a few reasons 1 Handling argument parsing correctly rather than trusting the user will pass argv down to the tool Even more fun if you expect the run api to be well typed and not just take a string 2 Having a consistent start point Everything you do with pulumi is started from the pulumi command rather than like stack configuration being done via `pulumi` but running your actual program being done via `go run` 3 Ensuring that the right pulumi binary is used Even if we supported something like `go run` it would somewhere internally have to shell out to the `pulumi` binary we can t write an actual native library for all of pulumi in every language I think the main point is two Just having that consistent start point for everything We do have an issue around supporting this just go run it approach <https github com pulumi pulumi issues 5538> but it hasn t had a lot of traction