AI-Driven Content Delivery via Fastly Caching

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To create an AI-driven content delivery setup using Fastly as a caching layer, you would utilize Fastly's powerful edge cloud platform, which provides advanced caching, security, and delivery capabilities. In a Pulumi program, you would typically interact with Fastly's services using API tokens and configure your Fastly services accordingly.

Fastly is not natively supported as a Pulumi resource provider. However, you can interact with Fastly's API using Pulumi's generic `automation` capabilities or by invoking external providers or even by crafting custom resources. Although you could use Pulumi to orchestrate other infrastructure around Fastly, such as DNS records or integration with CI/CD, the direct configuration of Fastly services will rely on their API rather than Pulumi resources.

I'll outline an example in Python showing how you might structure a Pulumi program to deal with Fastly services. Please note since Pulumi doesn't have a native Fastly provider (as of the last update to this system), the example is more conceptual.

```python
import pulumi

# Assume the necessary Fastly package or SDK is imported if available
# You would need to use the official Fastly Python client or requests to interact with their API
# import fastly

# For representing any outputs that result from the Fastly API interactions:
from pulumi.dynamic import Resource, ResourceProvider, CreateResult

# This is a placeholder for how a custom provider could be defined to interact with Fastly's API.
class FastlyProvider(ResourceProvider):
    def create(self, props):
        # Here you would use the Fastly API to configure your services.
        # The API token and other necessary information would come from 'props'.
        
        # Example API call to create a new service:
        # response = fastly.create_service(api_token=props['api_token'], name=props['service_name'])
        
        # Assuming the API call returns an ID for the created service
        service_id = "example-service-id"  # Replace with actual response data
        
        # The ID is returned as an output from this resource
        return CreateResult(id_=service_id, outs={})

# Placeholder resource class to represent a Fastly service in Pulumi.
class FastlyService(Resource):
    def __init__(self, name, args, opts=None):
        super().__init__(FastlyProvider(), name, args, opts)

# Actual Pulumi program starts here:
# The Fastly API token would be stored in a secure manner, normally in Pulumi's config or fetched from a secret manager.
# For illustrative purposes only, the token is shown as plain text which is not recommended.
fastly_api_token = 'YOUR_FASTLY_API_TOKEN'  # Replace this with the actual API token

# Define the configuration of the Fastly service:
fastly_service_args = {
    'api_token': fastly_api_token,
    'service_name': 'my-fastly-service'
}

# Create a Fastly service using the custom provider:
fastly_service = FastlyService('example-service', fastly_service_args)

# The outputs can be exported or used as inputs to other resources as needed.
pulumi.export('fastly_service_id', fastly_service.id)
```

In the example above, we define a custom resource `FastlyService` and a resource provider `FastlyProvider` to simulate interactions with Fastly's API. The AI-Driven configurations would likely involve setting up Fastly's machine learning-driven capabilities via their API.

Please remember that the actual implementation would depend on how Fastly exposes these features through their API, and you would need to refer to the Fastly API documentation for the correct endpoints and usage. If you wish to proceed with implementing a Fastly caching setup using Pulumi, I recommend looking for any community-made Pulumi providers or SDKs, or otherwise implementing the interactions with Fastly's API directly using code and treating it as a custom Pulumi provider, as shown in the example.