Cross-Platform Data Schema Management for AI Workloads

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Managing a cross-platform data schema for AI workloads involves a few steps:

1. Decide on the storage and database solution that fits the AI workload the best, like a data warehouse for large scale analytics, or a database service for more transactional workloads.
2. Define the schema in a way that will be consistent across platforms using tools provided by those services.
3. Possibly use an infrastructure as code tool, like Pulumi, to deploy and manage these services and their schemas.

In the context of Pulumi, we could define the actual storage resources and also manage things like datasets or analytics spaces that will store the schema information. Below, I'll show you how you can do this using different cloud providers' services to manage your data schema.

Let's consider you want to manage your data schema on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform simultaneously. On AWS, you might choose Redshift or Redshift Serverless; on Azure, you can use the SQL Data Warehouse; and on Google Cloud, you can use Vertex AI with a Metadata Store and Datasets for organizing AI datasets.

The following Pulumi program in Python demonstrates how you could set up resources for schema management across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Note that actual schema definition and data management should be done through respective services' tools or SDKs - Pulumi is used here for infrastructure setup.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws
import pulumi_azure_native as azure
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

# AWS Redshift Serverless Namespace
# Documentation: https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws/api-docs/redshiftserverless/namespace/
aws_namespace = aws.redshiftserverless.Namespace("my-ai-namespace",
    namespace_name="my-ainamespace",
    admin_username="admin",
    admin_user_password="SuperSecretPassword123!")

# Azure Synapse (previously SQL Data Warehouse)
# Documentation: https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure-native/api-docs/synapse/sqlpool/
azure_sql_pool = azure.synapse.SqlPool("my-ai-sql-pool",
    resource_group_name="my-resource-group",
    workspace_name="my-workspace",
    sql_pool_name="mysqldatapool",
    sku=azure.synapse.SkuArgs(
        name="DW1000c"
    ),
    location="East US")

# GCP Vertex AI Metadata Store
# Documentation: https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/vertex/aimetadatastore/
gcp_metadata_store = gcp.vertex.AiMetadataStore("my-ai-metadata-store",
    location="us-central1",
    project="my-gcp-project",
    encryption_spec=gcp.vertex.AiMetadataStoreEncryptionSpecArgs(
        kms_key_name="my-kms-key"
    ))

pulumi.export("aws_namespace_name", aws_namespace.namespace_name)
pulumi.export("azure_sql_pool_name", azure_sql_pool.name)
pulumi.export("gcp_metadata_store_name", gcp_metadata_store.name)
```

In the program above:
- For AWS, you create an `aws.redshiftserverless.Namespace` which sets up a space to hold your data schema and AI datasets within Redshift Serverless.
- For Azure, a `azure.synapse.SqlPool` is provisioned to work with Azure Synapse Analytics, which is a limitless analytics service with capabilities to manage data schema for AI workloads.
- For GCP, you define a `gcp.vertex.AiMetadataStore` to hold metadata for AI datasets managed by Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

Remember to set the correct values for the project name, resource group, admin password, and location according to your needs.

The next step would be defining your schema and managing your datasets through each cloud provider's specific data services or tools. This setup is highly dependent on your workload's specific requirements and the data services' capabilities. Pulumi manages infrastructure resources, so once your workload's schema and datasets are defined, consider using the respective cloud service SDKs for schema management tasks.

You will need the credentials for each cloud provider configured in your environment so Pulumi can authenticate and manage resources on your behalf. This setup typically involves AWS Access Key and Secret Key, Azure Service Principal, and a GCP Service Account with a key file.

To run this Pulumi program, you would first install the Pulumi CLI and set up the corresponding cloud provider credentials. Then, execute `pulumi up` to preview and deploy the resources.