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A private subnet is a public subnet without a route to the IGW, but with an NAT server. If you're creating subnets manually, then you have to look after this yourself.

that’ll make your life a whole bunch easier

I tried to use it at first but it made it much more complicated for someone who doesn't understand pulumi fully

if you want to create the entire VPC manually, there is some prior art to follow here:
<https://github.com/jen20/pulumi-aws-vpc/tree/master/python>

specifically: <https://github.com/jen20/pulumi-aws-vpc/blob/master/python/jen20_pulumi_aws_vpc/vpc.py>

but creating a VPC with awsx is as simple as:

```import pulumi
import pulumi_awsx as awsx
import pulumi_aws as aws

config = pulumi.Config()
cidr_block = config.require("cidr_block")
stack_name = pulumi.get_stack()

vpc = awsx.ec2.Vpc(
    f"vpc-{stack_name}",
    cidr_block=cidr_block,
    subnet_specs=[
        awsx.ec2.SubnetSpecArgs(
            type="public",
        ),
        awsx.ec2.SubnetSpecArgs(
            type="private",
        ),
    ],
    number_of_availability_zones=2
    nat_gateways=awsx.ec2.NatGatewayConfigurationArgs(strategy="SINGLE":),
)

pulumi.export("vpc_id", vpc.vpc_id)
pulumi.export("public_subnet_ids", vpc.public_subnet_ids)
pulumi.export("private_subnet_ids", vpc.private_subnet_ids)```

ok that's perfect, I didn't know about SubnetSpecArgs

like I'm looking at the ec2 subnet documentation and that's not even in there. Am I just having issues understanding the layout of the documentation? I haven't found anything I needed in there yet

unfortunately the awsx documentation isn’t great right now :disappointed: we’re aware of it

I can, I have it but so far i've just been coding in terminal

okay, vscode is going to make your life _much_ easier

are you completely new to Pulumi and writing pythin?

yes I'm pretty fresh to devops in general but this is by far the most complex undertaking I've tried yet

if you want to hop on a zoom, download vscode and install it and I can take you through some tips to make your life easier. I’m free for the next 90 minutes

I have vscode on this computer already but I work in a library so I can't really do a zoom call at the moment

no problem, if you install vscode and configure it correctly, you can right click on most resources and select “Go to definition” and you’ll see all the inpits and outputs you can configure

oh man that's fantastic the one thing pulumi seems to do really well is name things in a way that they make sense so that should really help