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What does the Pulumi skill do?

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Is Pulumi free to use?

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Who published Pulumi?

ashish7802 (@ashish7802) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Pulumi by ashish7802 — Agent Skill

Name: Pulumi
Author: ashish7802

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Pulumi Skill

Universal Infrastructure as Code.

Ecosystem Graph

graph LR
  pulumi["Pulumi"]
  pulumi -- "alternative to" --> terraform
  pulumi -- "depends on" --> typescript

Quick Start

Pulumi allows you to write Infrastructure as Code using general-purpose programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Go) instead of proprietary domain-specific languages like HCL.

npm install @pulumi/pulumi @pulumi/aws
pulumi up

Production Patterns

Programmatic Generation

Because Pulumi uses real code, you can easily use loops to generate 50 identical S3 buckets with slightly varying names, or fetch data from an external API to determine resource configurations dynamically during deployment.

Architecture & Scaling

Micro-Stacks

Instead of one massive Pulumi project, split your infrastructure into independent Stacks (e.g., CoreNetwork, Database, Frontend). Use Stack References (new pulumi.StackReference) to pass outputs (like VPC IDs) between them safely.

Error Recovery

If Pulumi hangs during an update, you can manually cancel it and use pulumi stack export to inspect the raw JSON state, fix any corrupted resource IDs, and pulumi stack import the corrected state back.

Security Notes

Pulumi natively supports secret management (pulumi config set --secret). Secrets are encrypted in the state file. When writing TypeScript, these secrets are returned as Output<string> types which cannot be accidentally logged as plaintext.

Relationships

Prerequisites: typescript

Alternatives: terraform

References

Pulumi Docs

Why use this skill

Use this when your agent works with pulumi — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.

AI pitfalls

Referencing CLI flags or config keys that do not exist
Using outdated major versions of tools
Skipping lockfile or version pinning in examples

Production checklist

Secrets in environment variables, not source code
Error handling and logging in place
Rate limits and timeouts configured

Related skills

terraform — alternative to

Last Verified: 2026-07-02

---name: pulumidescription: Pulumi Skill---# Pulumi Skill> Universal Infrastructure as Code.## Ecosystem Graph```mermaidgraph LR pulumi["Pulumi"] pulumi -- "alternative to" --> terraform pulumi -- "depends on" --> typescript```## Quick StartPulumi allows you to write Infrastructure as Code using general-purpose programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Go) instead of proprietary domain-specific languages like HCL.```bashnpm install @pulumi/pulumi @pulumi/awspulumi up```## Production Patterns### Programmatic GenerationBecause Pulumi uses real code, you can easily use loops to generate 50 identical S3 buckets with slightly varying names, or fetch data from an external API to determine resource configurations dynamically during deployment.## Architecture & Scaling### Micro-StacksInstead of one massive Pulumi project, split your infrastructure into independent Stacks (e.g., `CoreNetwork`, `Database`, `Frontend`). Use Stack References (`new pulumi.StackReference`) to pass outputs (like VPC IDs) between them safely.## Error RecoveryIf Pulumi hangs during an update, you can manually cancel it and use `pulumi stack export` to inspect the raw JSON state, fix any corrupted resource IDs, and `pulumi stack import` the corrected state back.## Security NotesPulumi natively supports secret management (`pulumi config set --secret`). Secrets are encrypted in the state file. When writing TypeScript, these secrets are returned as `Output<string>` types which cannot be accidentally logged as plaintext.## Relationships**Prerequisites**: [typescript](/skills/typescript)**Alternatives**: [terraform](/skills/terraform)## References- [Pulumi Docs](https://www.pulumi.com/docs/)## Why use this skillUse this when your agent works with **pulumi** — structured patterns beat pasted docs and prevent common hallucinations.## AI pitfalls- Referencing CLI flags or config keys that do not exist- Using outdated major versions of tools- Skipping lockfile or version pinning in examples## Production checklist- [ ] Secrets in environment variables, not source code- [ ] Error handling and logging in place- [ ] Rate limits and timeouts configured## Related skills- [`terraform`](../terraform/SKILL.md) — alternative to---> **Last Verified:** 2026-07-02

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