pulumi

Lazily install the Pulumi CLI via npx.

npx pulumi up

Note: This is NOT the Pulumi SDK. If you're writing a Pulumi program you want @pulumi/pulumi instead. See the language SDK docs for all supported runtimes.

How it works

On first use, the package downloads the Pulumi CLI binary for your platform from get.pulumi.com and caches it under ~/.pulumi/versions/. Subsequent invocations use the cached binary directly.

Version pinning

The npm package version matches the Pulumi CLI version exactly. Pin to a specific release by specifying the version:

npx [email protected] up

Cache location

Binaries are cached at ~/.pulumi/versions/<version>/bin/, shared with the Automation API so both never download the same version twice. Set PULUMI_HOME to use a different base directory:

PULUMI_HOME=/path/to/pulumi npx pulumi up

To clear the cache:

rm -rf ~/.pulumi/versions