Pulumi & Azure: Before you begin
Before you get started using Pulumi, let’s run through a few quick steps to ensure your environment is set up correctly.
Install Pulumi
$ brew install pulumi/tap/pulumi$ curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com | sh> choco install pulumiOther installation options are available. When the installation completes, you can test it out by reading the current version:
$ pulumi version
v3.136.1$ pulumi version
v3.136.1> pulumi version
v3.136.1If this doesn't work, you may need to restart your terminal to ensure the folder containing
the pulumi command is on your PATH.
Next, install the required language runtime, if you have not already.
Install Language Runtime
Choose Your Language
Install Node.js.
If you're having trouble setting up Node.js up on your machine, see Installing Node.js via Package Manager for alternative installation options.
Install Python. To reduce potential issues with setting up your Python environment on Windows or macOS, you should install Python through the official Python installer.
Either pip or poetry is required to install dependencies. If you installed Python from source, with an installer from
python.org, or via Homebrew you should
already have pip. If Python is installed using your OS package manager, you may have to install pip separately, see
Installing pip/setuptools/wheel with Linux Package Managers. For example, on Debian/Ubuntu you must run sudo apt install python3-venv python3-pip.
To install poetry follow the installation instructions.
If you're having trouble setting up Python on your machine, see Python 3 Installation & Setup Guide for detailed installation instructions on various operating systems and distributions.
Install Go.
Pulumi requires a supported version of Go— this typically refers to the two most recent major releases. Note that Go calls 1.20, 1.21, etc. major releases, unlike semantic versioning. If
you're using Linux, your distribution may not provide an up to date version of the Go compiler. To check what version of Go you have installed, use:
go version.
Install .NET SDK.
Pulumi will need the dotnet executable in order to build and run your Pulumi .NET application. Ensure that the dotnet executable can be found
on your path after installation.
Install Java 11 or later and Apache Maven 3.6.1 or later.
Pulumi will need the java, javac, and mvn executables in order to build and run your Pulumi Java application. Ensure that these
executables can be found on your path after installation.
Finally, configure Pulumi with Microsoft Azure.
Configure Pulumi to access your Microsoft Azure account
Pulumi requires cloud credentials to manage and provision resources. Pulumi can authenticate to Azure using a user account or service principal that has Programmatic access with rights to deploy and manage your Azure resources.
In this guide, you will need a user account with permissions to create and populate Blob storage containers and provide anonymous access to a Blob file.
When developing locally, we recommend that you install the Azure CLI and then authorize access with a user account.
az login
After successfully logging in, you are ready to go.
az account set command.For additional information on authenticating with Azure, or to login with a service principal, see Azure Setup.
Next, you’ll create a new Pulumi project.
Thank you for your feedback!
If you have a question about how to use Pulumi, reach out in Community Slack.
Open an issue on GitHub to report a problem or suggest an improvement.
