Add support for Pulumi

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[jaxxstorm]

Pulumi currently supports a YAML authoring language, which is convertible to a fully fledged programming language.

Being able to output Pulumi YAML, then running pulumi convert would be awesome

[Trubador]

Why do you think the code that pulumi creates with its cli is not sufficient? I am just curious.

[TechWatching]

Why do you think the code that pulumi creates with its cli is not sufficient? I am just curious.

It's not that pulumi cli is not sufficient but about being able to use azd with pulumi. Azure Developer CLI is not only about Infrastructure as Code but also about generating the application code, generating the pipelines to deploy the code, deploying the application, and monitoring the application, ... So for someone who wants to manage its application using azd (code, build, deploy, monitor) but with the infrastructure code using Pulumi, support for Pulumi in azd is a must have. Or maybe I misunderstood the question and your question was about what @jaxxstorm said?

[Trubador]

Why do you think the code that pulumi creates with its cli is not sufficient? I am just curious.

It's not that pulumi cli is not sufficient but about being able to use azd with pulumi. Azure Developer CLI is not only about Infrastructure as Code but also about generating the application code, generating the pipelines to deploy the code, deploying the application, and monitoring the application, ... So for someone who wants to manage its application using azd (code, build, deploy, monitor) but with the infrastructure code using Pulumi, support for Pulumi in azd is a must have. Or maybe I misunderstood the question and your question was about what @jaxxstorm said?

I can see the benefit in that if everything is generated automatically with 1 command thus saving time. It was not related to @jaxxstorm comment.

[TechWatching]

Why do you think the code that pulumi creates with its cli is not sufficient? I am just curious.

It's not that pulumi cli is not sufficient but about being able to use azd with pulumi. Azure Developer CLI is not only about Infrastructure as Code but also about generating the application code, generating the pipelines to deploy the code, deploying the application, and monitoring the application, ... So for someone who wants to manage its application using azd (code, build, deploy, monitor) but with the infrastructure code using Pulumi, support for Pulumi in azd is a must have. Or maybe I misunderstood the question and your question was about what @jaxxstorm said?

I can see the benefit in that if everything is generated automatically with 1 command thus saving time. It was not related to @jaxxstorm comment.

Yes, another related benefit is to be able to share templates that contain the application and the infrastructure code. Pulumi CLI is only about the infrastructure code. For people getting started using Azure, I believe it's nice to have some boilerplate (infra+app) to build an application that can be directly deployed to Azure.

[Trubador]

Why do you think the code that pulumi creates with its cli is not sufficient? I am just curious.

It's not that pulumi cli is not sufficient but about being able to use azd with pulumi. Azure Developer CLI is not only about Infrastructure as Code but also about generating the application code, generating the pipelines to deploy the code, deploying the application, and monitoring the application, ... So for someone who wants to manage its application using azd (code, build, deploy, monitor) but with the infrastructure code using Pulumi, support for Pulumi in azd is a must have. Or maybe I misunderstood the question and your question was about what @jaxxstorm said?

I can see the benefit in that if everything is generated automatically with 1 command thus saving time. It was not related to @jaxxstorm comment.

Yes, another related benefit is to be able to share templates that contain the application and the infrastructure code. Pulumi CLI is only about the infrastructure code. For people getting started using Azure, I believe it's nice to have some boilerplate (infra+app) to build an application that can be directly deployed to Azure.

Yes defintely. I was actually working on building a SaaS template for azure some time ago so I can see the benefit of that.