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Pulumi terms & command equivalents

If you’re already familiar with Terraform, learning Pulumi terminology and commands is simple. Many of the existing Terraform vocabulary and commands that you already know have direct equivalents in Pulumi. The table below lists common Terraform terms and CLI commands along with their Pulumi equivalents.

Terminology

TerraformPulumi
WorkspaceStack
VariablesStack Config
DirectoryProject
ModuleComponent
ResourceResource
InterpolationInterpolation
RunUp
Output ValuesOutputs
StateState
State VersionUpdate Events
BackendBackend
DeposedPending Operations

Commands

TerraformPulumi
initpulumi new
validateValidation is performed with the inherent syntax checking and testing frameworks in the supported programming languages
planpulumi preview
applypulumi up
destroypulumi destroy
consolePulumi commands can be evaluated in a standard programming language shell
fmtStandard programming language linting tools checks for format and style
force-unlockpulumi cancel
getReusable modules are directly imported as a library in the programming language
graphpulumi stack graph
importpulumi import -f resources.json
loginpulumi login
logoutpulumi logout
outputpulumi stack output
providerspulumi plugin
refreshpulumi refresh
showpulumi stack
statepulumi state
versionpulumi version
workspacepulumi stack