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Pulumi CLI commands

Common Commands

The most common commands in the CLI that you’ll be using are as follows:

  • pulumi new: creates a new project using a template
  • pulumi stack: manage your stacks (at least one is required to perform an update)
  • pulumi config: configure variables such as keys, regions, and so on
  • pulumi up: preview and deploy changes to your program and/or infrastructure
  • pulumi preview: preview your changes explicitly before deploying
  • pulumi destroy: destroy your program and its infrastructure when you’re done

Complete Reference

Below is the complete documentation for all available 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

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