anyone here have experience in putting together Pu...
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crooked-country-1937
01/25/2023, 2:58 AManyone here have experience in putting together Pulumi and Pants?
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enough-analyst-54434
01/25/2023, 3:02 AMI just searched for pulumi using the slack search interface and got alot of hits. I'm not sure if I can see things you can't. Did you try this?
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crooked-country-1937
01/25/2023, 3:09 AMha - I started searching after posting this 🙂
crooked-country-1937
01/25/2023, 3:58 AMI am seeing some posts on integrating Pulumi CLI. I wonder whats the experience of folks using the Python API directly? I was thinking of skipping the CLI and using the Python API
crooked-country-1937
01/25/2023, 3:59 AMe
enough-analyst-54434
01/25/2023, 4:12 AMYou want to have an extremely good reason to use a Python API over a CLI / process. Pants caching is built around processes and tight control of side effects.
enough-analyst-54434
01/25/2023, 4:13 AMIt can be the case that an API defeats that.
enough-analyst-54434
01/25/2023, 4:14 AMAnd in some sense you're getting lucky if not. After all, if the API was jvm, out of luck and you'd be forced to use a process.
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crooked-country-1937
01/25/2023, 4:41 AMI am not able to follow.
AFAIK, Pulumi CLI is a go binary. For python projects, CLI runs the python code to get the configuration, which is then applied to infra by the go binary.
With the Python API, the CLI is still needed. But instead of the execution being controlled by shell, its happens via python. I don’t know how it works exactly, never dived into it deeply. I could be very wrong as well :)
Can there be issues if I have a python program execution subprocesses and Pants?
crooked-country-1937
01/25/2023, 4:51 AMLooking at Pulumi code, eg: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/fc27707511f646c111a338e7424c63f61386de53/sdk/python/lib/pulumi/automation/_stack.py#L205
It is spinning up a GRPC server, passing the config as protobuf serialized, and running the command synchronously.