Show me how to use a terraform provider in pulumi

To use a Terraform provider in Pulumi, you can use the pulumi-terraform-bridge. This bridge allows Pulumi to leverage Terraform's providers and resources within a Pulumi program. Here, I'll demonstrate how to use a Terraform-based provider—let's use the aws provider as an example—with Pulumi in TypeScript.

To use a Terraform provider, you must have the @pulumi/terraform package installed. You can do this by running the command npm install @pulumi/terraform.

Here's how you can instantiate and use a Terraform provider with Pulumi:

import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as terraform from "@pulumi/terraform";

const awsProvider = new terraform.Provider('aws', {
    provider: {
        name: 'aws', // specify the Terraform provider's name
        version: "~> 2.0", // specify the desired version
        // Additional configuration for the provider connection
        config: {
            region: 'us-west-2',
        },
    },
});

// Once the provider is created, you can use it to instantiate resources.
// For instance, creating an S3 bucket using the Terraform AWS provider would look like this:

const bucket = new terraform.Resource('my-bucket', {
    provider: awsProvider,
    type: 'aws_s3_bucket',
    name: 'mybucket', // This would be part of the 'args', which is the Terraform resource's arguments
    // Add additional arguments as per the Terraform resource's schema
});

// To export the bucket name, you would use the 'id' property which corresponds to Terraform's `id`.
export const bucketName = bucket.id;

Note that the terraform.Provider class is used to create a new instance of the Terraform provider, and the terraform.Resource class is used to create a new Terraform-based resource through Pulumi.

If you want to use a less-common Terraform provider, you would do something similar, but you would have to specify the appropriate provider name and version, as well as any required configuration for that provider.

Remember, you need to install both @pulumi/pulumi and @pulumi/terraform NPM packages to run this code, and be aware that this feature is meant for advanced scenarios where a Pulumi-native provider is not available for a given cloud resource.