Pulumi is a tool to implement cloud infrastructures by use of regular programming languages. In regular programming languages, we regularly refactor our code after new features are added as to keep the design clean. Pulumi promises this too, but how can you do this?
This repository offers an example on how you can do this by leveraging the aliases property.
Let's get started. The code in this repository is written in Typescript, so it is expected to have a working NodeJS distribution on your machine.
If you are reading this on Github, first clone this repository to your machine:
$ git clone https://github.com/cumundi/pulumi-refactoring-aliases.gitThen go into the folder and retrieve all NodeJS dependencies:
$ cd pulumi-refactoring-aliases
$ npm install # or yarn installThis repository only contains the Pulumi project file. You now have to create a stack to test this out, e.g.:
$ pulumi stack init devAt this point, you should be able to run Pulumi without error:
$ pulumi up
Previewing update (dev):
Type Name Plan
+ pulumi:pulumi:Stack pulumi-refactoring-aliases-dev create
Resources:
+ 1 to create
Do you want to perform this update? yes
Updating (dev):
Type Name Status
+ pulumi:pulumi:Stack pulumi-refactoring-aliases-dev created
Resources:
+ 1 created
Duration: 2s
Permalink: https://app.pulumi.com/cumundi/pulumi-refactoring-aliases/dev/updates/1
Time: 0h:00m:09sLet's add the first resources. Every of the subsequent refactoring steps are committed to separate branches in this git repository. To continue, checkout branch step1:
$ git checkout step1