Deploy with Pulumi Button

The “Deploy with Pulumi” button lets you easily create new Pulumi projects from the browser. You can embed the button in README files within GitHub repositories or gists, blog posts, or other web pages.

For example, select the Deploy button to configure and create a new empty JavaScript project:

To create a Deploy with Pulumi button:

1. Include optional template metadata in your Pulumi.yaml.
2. Create a button in Markdown or HTML.

Preparing your Template

The Pulumi button works with project templates hosted in public GitHub repositories or gists. A template is a Pulumi project that has the required Pulumi.yaml file describing the project. The project template can be in the root of the GitHub repository, or within a subdirectory. Multiple projects can be hosted within subdirectories of a single repository.

The Pulumi.yaml file can optionally contain a template section, which typically includes a config section for specifying required config values for the project. Each config value can have a description and a default value. Config values can also have a secret property, which can be set to true to indicate that it is a secret.

name: my-aws-project
runtime: nodejs
description: My AWS project description
template:
  config:
    aws:region:
      description: The AWS region to deploy into
      default: us-west-2
    myAccessToken:
      description: My access token
      secret: true

The above snippet includes an aws:region config value with a default value of us-west-2, as well as a myAccessToken config value that is a secret without a default value.

Testing

You can test your template via the Pulumi CLI or a web browser.

CLI

$ pulumi new https://github.com/pulumi/examples/aws-js-s3-folder

Browser

https://app.pulumi.com/new?template=https://github.com/pulumi/examples/aws-js-s3-folder

Creating a Pulumi Button

After you’ve verified your project template works as expected, you can add a button to the README in your repository or gist. You will need to specify a template parameter that points to the project.

Here’s an example in Markdown:

[![Deploy](https://get.pulumi.com/new/button.svg)](https://app.pulumi.com/new?template=https://github.com/pulumi/examples/aws-js-s3-folder)

Or, the equivalent HTML:

<a href="https://app.pulumi.com/new?template=https://github.com/pulumi/examples/aws-js-s3-folder">
  <img src="https://get.pulumi.com/new/button.svg" alt="Deploy">
</a>

Button Image

Pulumi provides both SVG and PNG versions of the button image at the following URLs:

• https://get.pulumi.com/new/button.svg
• https://get.pulumi.com/new/button.png

Custom Git Branches

You can use a fully qualified GitHub URL with the template parameter to reference the template at a specific Git branch, tag, or commit:

https://github.com/pulumi/examples/tree/master/aws-js-s3-folder