While we no longer use the native runtime module, older versions of
@pulumi/pulumi still require it. Let's continue to have the launcher
put the native module location on the `$PATH`. And we'll include them
in the SDK for a while longer.
Fixes#1177
This change includes a lot more functionality. Enough to actually
run the webserver-py example through previews, updates, and destroys!
* Actually wire up the gRPC connections to the engine/monitor.
* Move the Node.js and Python generated Protobuf/gRPC files underneath
the actual SDK directories to simplify this generally. No more
copying during `make` and, in fact, this was required to give a smoother
experience with good packages/modules for the Python's SDK development.
* Build the Python egg during `make build`.
* Add support for program stacks. Just like with the Node.js runtime,
we will auto-parent any resources without explicit parents to a single
top-level resource component.
* Add support for component resource output properties.
* Add get_project() and get_stack() functions for retrieving the current
project and stack names.
* Properly use UNKNOWN sentinels.
* Add a set_outputs() function on Resource. This is defined by the
code-generator and allows custom logic for output property setting.
This is cleaner than the way we do this in Node.js, and gives us a
way to ensure that output properties are "real" properties, complete
with member documentation. This also gives us a hook to perform
name demangling, which the code-generator typically controls anyway.
* Add package dependencies to setuptools.py and requirements.txt.
This brings back the Node.js language plugin's GetRequiredPlugins
function, reimplemented in Go now that the language host has been
rewritten from JavaScript. Fairly rote translation, along with
some random fixes required to get tests passing again.
This change introduces a workspace.GetPluginPath function that probes
the central workspace cache of plugins for a matching plugin binary that
matches the desired kind, name, and, optionally, version. It also permits
overriding this with $PATH for developer scenarios.
The analyzer, language, and resource plugin logic now uses this function
for deciding which binary path to load at runtime.
This is the initial step towards redefining Lumi as a library that runs
atop vanilla Node.js/V8, rather than as its own runtime.
This change is woefully incomplete but this includes some of the more
stable pieces of my current work-in-progress.
The new structure is that within the sdk/ directory we will have a client
library per language. This client library contains the object model for
Lumi (resources, properties, assets, config, etc), in addition to the
"language runtime host" components required to interoperate with the
Lumi resource monitor. This resource monitor is effectively what we call
"Lumi" today, in that it's the thing orchestrating plans and deployments.
Inside the sdk/ directory, you will find nodejs/, the Node.js client
library, alongside proto/, the definitions for RPC interop between the
different pieces of the system. This includes existing RPC definitions
for resource providers, etc., in addition to the new ones for hosting
different language runtimes from within Lumi.
These new interfaces are surprisingly simple. There is effectively a
bidirectional RPC channel between the Lumi resource monitor, represented
by the lumirpc.ResourceMonitor interface, and each language runtime,
represented by the lumirpc.LanguageRuntime interface.
The overall orchestration goes as follows:
1) Lumi decides it needs to run a program written in language X, so
it dynamically loads the language runtime plugin for language X.
2) Lumi passes that runtime a loopback address to its ResourceMonitor
service, while language X will publish a connection back to its
LanguageRuntime service, which Lumi will talk to.
3) Lumi then invokes LanguageRuntime.Run, passing information like
the desired working directory, program name, arguments, and optional
configuration variables to make available to the program.
4) The language X runtime receives this, unpacks it and sets up the
necessary context, and then invokes the program. The program then
calls into Lumi object model abstractions that internally communicate
back to Lumi using the ResourceMonitor interface.
5) The key here is ResourceMonitor.NewResource, which Lumi uses to
serialize state about newly allocated resources. Lumi receives these
and registers them as part of the plan, doing the usual diffing, etc.,
to decide how to proceed. This interface is perhaps one of the
most subtle parts of the new design, as it necessitates the use of
promises internally to allow parallel evaluation of the resource plan,
letting dataflow determine the available concurrency.
6) The program exits, and Lumi continues on its merry way. If the program
fails, the RunResponse will include information about the failure.
Due to (5), all properties on resources are now instances of a new
Property<T> type. A Property<T> is just a thin wrapper over a T, but it
encodes the special properties of Lumi resource properties. Namely, it
is possible to create one out of a T, other Property<T>, Promise<T>, or
to freshly allocate one. In all cases, the Property<T> does not "settle"
until its final state is known. This cannot occur before the deployment
actually completes, and so in general it's not safe to depend on concrete
resolutions of values (unlike ordinary Promise<T>s which are usually
expected to resolve). As a result, all derived computations are meant to
use the `then` function (as in `someValue.then(v => v+x)`).
Although this change includes tests that may be run in isolation to test
the various RPC interactions, we are nowhere near finished. The remaining
work primarily boils down to three things:
1) Wiring all of this up to the Lumi code.
2) Fixing the handful of known loose ends required to make this work,
primarily around the serialization of properties (waiting on
unresolved ones, serializing assets properly, etc).
3) Implementing lambda closure serialization as a native extension.
This ongoing work is part of pulumi/pulumi-fabric#311.
