pulumi | CLI commands
Pulumi command line
Synopsis
Pulumi - Modern Infrastructure as Code
To begin working with Pulumi, run the pulumi new command:
$ pulumi new
This will prompt you to create a new project for your cloud and language of choice.
The most common commands from there are:
- pulumi up       : Deploy code and/or resource changes
- pulumi stack    : Manage instances of your project
- pulumi config   : Alter your stack's configuration or secrets
- pulumi destroy  : Tear down your stack's resources entirely
For more information, please visit the project page: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/
Options
      --color string                 Colorize output. Choices are: always, never, raw, auto (default "auto")
  -C, --cwd string                   Run pulumi as if it had been started in another directory
      --disable-integrity-checking   Disable integrity checking of checkpoint files
  -e, --emoji                        Enable emojis in the output
  -Q, --fully-qualify-stack-names    Show fully-qualified stack names
  -h, --help                         help for pulumi
      --logflow                      Flow log settings to child processes (like plugins)
      --logtostderr                  Log to stderr instead of to files
      --memprofilerate int           Enable more precise (and expensive) memory allocation profiles by setting runtime.MemProfileRate
      --non-interactive              Disable interactive mode for all commands
      --profiling string             Emit CPU and memory profiles and an execution trace to '[filename].[pid].{cpu,mem,trace}', respectively
      --tracing file:                Emit tracing to the specified endpoint. Use the file: scheme to write tracing data to a local file
  -v, --verbose int                  Enable verbose logging (e.g., v=3); anything >3 is very verbose
SEE ALSO
- pulumi about - Print information about the Pulumi environment.
- pulumi ai - Basic Pulumi AI CLI commands.
- pulumi cancel - Cancel a stack’s currently running update, if any
- pulumi config - Manage configuration
- pulumi console - Opens the current stack in the Pulumi Console
- pulumi convert - Convert Pulumi programs from a supported source program into other supported languages
- pulumi destroy - Destroy all existing resources in the stack
- pulumi env - Manage environments
- pulumi gen-completion - Generate completion scripts for the Pulumi CLI
- pulumi import - Import resources into an existing stack
- pulumi install - Install packages and plugins for the current program or policy pack.
- pulumi login - Log in to the Pulumi Cloud
- pulumi logout - Log out of the Pulumi Cloud
- pulumi logs - Show aggregated resource logs for a stack
- pulumi new - Create a new Pulumi project
- pulumi org - Manage Organization configuration
- pulumi package - Work with Pulumi packages
- pulumi plugin - Manage language and resource provider plugins
- pulumi policy - Manage resource policies
- pulumi preview - Show a preview of updates to a stack’s resources
- pulumi project - Manage Pulumi projects
- pulumi refresh - Refresh the resources in a stack
- pulumi schema - Analyze package schemas
- pulumi stack - Manage stacks and view stack state
- pulumi state - Edit the current stack’s state
- pulumi template - Work with Pulumi templates
- pulumi up - Create or update the resources in a stack
- pulumi version - Print Pulumi’s version number
- pulumi watch - Continuously update the resources in a stack
- pulumi whoami - Display the current logged-in user
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