README.md

Pulumi

Pulumi is a cloud development platform that makes creating cloud programs easy and productive.

Author cloud programs in your favorite language and Pulumi will automatically keep your infrastructure up-to-date. Skip the YAML and just write code. Pulumi is multi-language, multi-cloud and fully extensible in both its engine and ecosystem of packages.

To install the latest Pulumi release, run:

$ curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com/ | sh

After installing, you can get started with the pulumi new command, our examples, or our visit project website which includes several in-depth tutorials and an interactive tour to walk through the core CLI usage and programming concepts.

Please join the conversation on Slack.

This repo contains the CLI, language SDKs, and the core Pulumi engine. Individual libraries are in their own repos.

Platforms

Languages

Clouds

Libraries

There are several libraries that encapsulate best practices and common patterns:

Examples

A collection of examples for different languages, clouds, and scenarios is available in the pulumi/examples repo.

Development

If you'd like to contribute to Pulumi and/or build from source, this section is for you.

Prerequisites

Pulumi is written in Go, uses Dep for dependency management, and GoMetaLinter for linting:

• Go: https://golang.org/dl
• Dep: $ go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
• GoMetaLinter:
  • $ go get -u github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter
  • $ gometalinter --install

Building from Source

To install the pre-built SDK, please run curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com/ | sh, or see detailed installation instructions on the project page. Read on if you want to install from source.

To build the Pulumi CLI from source, you may simply run:

$ go get -u github.com/pulumi/pulumi

This installs the pulumi binary to $GOPATH/bin.

To do anything interesting with Pulumi, you will need an SDK for your language of choice. The SDK installation comes with pre-built language providers, however the make flow below will create a complete SDK distribution for you.

Building and Testing

To build a complete Pulumi SDK, ensure $GOPATH is set, and clone into a standard Go workspace:

$ git clone [email protected]:pulumi/pulumi $GOPATH/src/github.com/pulumi/pulumi
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/pulumi/pulumi

The first time you build, you must make ensure to install dependencies and perform other machine setup:

$ make ensure

In the future, you can synch dependencies simply by running dep ensure explicitly:

$ dep ensure

At this point you can run make to build and run tests:

$ make

This installs the pulumi binary into $GOPATH/bin, which may now be run provided make exited successfully.

The Makefile also supports just running tests (make test_all or make test_fast), just running the linter (make lint), just running Govet (make vet), and so on. Please just refer to the Makefile for the full list of targets.

Debugging

The Pulumi tools have extensive logging built in. In fact, we encourage liberal logging in new code, and adding new logging when debugging problems. This helps to ensure future debugging endeavors benefit from your sleuthing.

All logging is done using Google's Glog library. It is relatively bare-bones, and adds basic leveled logging, stack dumping, and other capabilities beyond what Go's built-in logging routines offer.

The pulumi command line has two flags that control this logging and that can come in handy when debugging problems. The --logtostderr flag spews directly to stderr, rather than the default of logging to files in your temp directory. And the --verbose=n flag (-v=n for short) sets the logging level to n. Anything greater than 3 is reserved for debug-level logging, greater than 5 is going to be quite verbose, and anything beyond 7 is extremely noisy.

For example, the command

$ pulumi preview --logtostderr -v=5

is a pretty standard starting point during debugging that will show a fairly comprehensive trace log of a compilation.