Adds a new resource option `aliases` which can be used to rename a resource. When making a breaking change to the name or type of a resource or component, the old name can be added to the list of `aliases` for a resource to ensure that existing resources will be migrated to the new name instead of being deleted and replaced with the new named resource.
There are two key places this change is implemented.
The first is the step generator in the engine. When computing whether there is an old version of a registered resource, we now take into account the aliases specified on the registered resource. That is, we first look up the resource by its new URN in the old state, and then by any aliases provided (in order). This can allow the resource to be matched as a (potential) update to an existing resource with a different URN.
The second is the core `Resource` constructor in the JavaScript (and soon Python) SDKs. This change ensures that when a parent resource is aliased, that all children implicitly inherit corresponding aliases. It is similar to how many other resource options are "inherited" implicitly from the parent.
Four specific scenarios are explicitly tested as part of this PR:
1. Renaming a resource
2. Adopting a resource into a component (as the owner of both component and consumption codebases)
3. Renaming a component instance (as the owner of the consumption codebase without changes to the component)
4. Changing the type of a component (as the owner of the component codebase without changes to the consumption codebase)
4. Combining (1) and (3) to make both changes to a resource at the same time
In our system, we model secrets as outputs with an additional bit of
metadata that says they are secret. For Read and Register resource
calls, our RPC interface says if the client side of the interface can
handle secrets being returned (i.e. the language SDK knows how to
sniff for the special signiture and resolve the output with the
special bit set).
For Invoke, we have no such model. Instead, we return a `Promise<T>`
where T's shape has just regular property fields. There's no place
for us to tack the secretness onto, since there are no Outputs.
So, for now, don't even return secret values back across the invoke
channel. We can still take them as arguments (which is good) but we
can't even return secrets as part of invoke calls. This is not ideal,
but given the way we model these sources, there's no way around
this. Fortunately, the result of these invoke calls are not stored in
the checkpoint and since the type is not Output<T> it will be clear
that the underlying value is just present in plaintext. A user that
wants to pass the result of an invoke into a resource can turn an
existing property into a secret via `pulumi.secret`.
`pulumi query` requires that language plugins know about "query mode" so
that they don't do things like try to register the default stack
resource.
To communicate that a language host should boot into query mode, we
augment the language plugin protocol to include this information.
Fixes#2277.
Adds a new ignoreChanges resource option that allows specifying a list of property names whose values will be ignored during updates. The property values will be used for Create, but will be ignored for purposes of updates, and as a result also cannot trigger replacements.
This is a feature of the Pulumi engine, not of the resource providers, so no new logic is needed in providers to support this feature. Instead, the engine simply replaces the values of input properties in the goal state with old inputs for properties marked as ignoreChanges.
Currently, only top level properties may be specified in ignoreChanges. In the future, this could be extended to support paths to nested properties (including into array elements) with a JSONPath/JMESPath syntax.
In pursuit of pulumi/pulumi#2389, this commit adds the necessary changes
to the resource monitor protocol so that language hosts can communicate
exactly what version of a provider should be used when servicing an
Invoke, ReadResource, or RegisterResource. The expectation here is that,
if a language host provides a version, the engine MUST use EXACTLY that
version of a provider plugin in order to service the request.
These changes take advantage of the newly-added support for returning
inputs from Read to update a resource's inputs as part of a refresh.
As a consequence, the Pulumi engine will now properly detect drift
between the actual state of a resource and the desired state described
by the program and generate appropriate update or replace steps.
As part of these changes, a resource's old inputs are now passed to the
provider when performing a refresh. The provider can take advantage of
this to maintain the accuracy of any additional data or metadata in the
resource's inputs that may need to be updated during the refresh.
This is required for the complete implementation of
https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-terraform/pull/349. Without access to
the old inputs for a resource, TF-based providers would lose all
information about default population during a refresh.
These changes add two new methods to the provider interface and extend
the results of three others.
The new methods are `CheckConfig` and `DiffConfig`, which fill out the
set of methods required for a complete implementation of the
first-class provider design. Though these methods are optional for
backwards compatibility, they should be implemented by all future
providers for the best possible user experience.
The adjusted result types are `DiffResponse`, `ReadResponse`, and
`ErrorResourceInitFailed`. The first has been updated to include a list
of the properties that changed (if any). The latter two now include
an estimated set of inputs for the resource as well as the resource's
state. Together, these three changes enable the engine to determine the
set of inputs that should be specified by a user in order to match those
that describe the resource's current state.
This contributes to #2453, #1662, #1635, and #1718.
These changes add a new flag to the various `ResourceOptions` types that
indicates that a resource should be deleted before it is replaced, even
if the provider does not require this behavior. The usual
delete-before-replace cascade semantics apply.
Fixes#1620.
This implements the new algorithm for deciding which resources must be
deleted due to a delete-before-replace operation.
We need to compute the set of resources that may be replaced by a
change to the resource under consideration. We do this by taking the
complete set of transitive dependents on the resource under
consideration and removing any resources that would not be replaced by
changes to their dependencies. We determine whether or not a resource
may be replaced by substituting unknowns for input properties that may
change due to deletion of the resources their value depends on and
calling the resource provider's Diff method.
This is perhaps clearer when described by example. Consider the
following dependency graph:
A
__|__
B C
| _|_
D E F
In this graph, all of B, C, D, E, and F transitively depend on A. It may
be the case, however, that changes to the specific properties of any of
those resources R that would occur if a resource on the path to A were
deleted and recreated may not cause R to be replaced. For example, the
edge from B to A may be a simple dependsOn edge such that a change to
B does not actually influence any of B's input properties. In that case,
neither B nor D would need to be deleted before A could be deleted.
In order to make the above algorithm a reality, the resource monitor
interface has been updated to include a map that associates an input
property key with the list of resources that input property depends on.
Older clients of the resource monitor will leave this map empty, in
which case all input properties will be treated as depending on all
dependencies of the resource. This is probably overly conservative, but
it is less conservative than what we currently implement, and is
certainly correct.
* Protobuf changes
* Move management of root resource state to engine
This commit fixes a persistent side-by-side issue in the NodeJS SDK by
moving the management of root resource state to the engine. Doing so
adds two new endpoints to the Engine gRPC service: 1) GetRootResource
and 2) SetRootResource, which get and set the root resource
respectively.
* Rebase against master, regenerate proto
This commit will introduce a field, `IsStatus` to `LogRequest`. A
"status" logging event will be displayed in the `Info` column of the
main display, but will not be printed out at the end, when resource
operations complete.
For example, for complex resource initialization, we'd like to display a
series of intermediate results: `[1/4] Service object created`, for
example. We'd like these to appear in the `Info` column, but not at the
end, where they are not helpful to the user.
### First-Class Providers
These changes implement support for first-class providers. First-class
providers are provider plugins that are exposed as resources via the
Pulumi programming model so that they may be explicitly and multiply
instantiated. Each instance of a provider resource may be configured
differently, and configuration parameters may be source from the
outputs of other resources.
### Provider Plugin Changes
In order to accommodate the need to verify and diff provider
configuration and configure providers without complete configuration
information, these changes adjust the high-level provider plugin
interface. Two new methods for validating a provider's configuration
and diffing changes to the same have been added (`CheckConfig` and
`DiffConfig`, respectively), and the type of the configuration bag
accepted by `Configure` has been changed to a `PropertyMap`.
These changes have not yet been reflected in the provider plugin gRPC
interface. We will do this in a set of follow-up changes. Until then,
these methods are implemented by adapters:
- `CheckConfig` validates that all configuration parameters are string
or unknown properties. This is necessary because existing plugins
only accept string-typed configuration values.
- `DiffConfig` either returns "never replace" if all configuration
values are known or "must replace" if any configuration value is
unknown. The justification for this behavior is given
[here](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/1695/files#diff-a6cd5c7f337665f5bb22e92ca5f07537R106)
- `Configure` converts the config bag to a legacy config map and
configures the provider plugin if all config values are known. If any
config value is unknown, the underlying plugin is not configured and
the provider may only perform `Check`, `Read`, and `Invoke`, all of
which return empty results. We justify this behavior becuase it is
only possible during a preview and provides the best experience we
can manage with the existing gRPC interface.
### Resource Model Changes
Providers are now exposed as resources that participate in a stack's
dependency graph. Like other resources, they are explicitly created,
may have multiple instances, and may have dependencies on other
resources. Providers are referred to using provider references, which
are a combination of the provider's URN and its ID. This design
addresses the need during a preview to refer to providers that have not
yet been physically created and therefore have no ID.
All custom resources that are not themselves providers must specify a
single provider via a provider reference. The named provider will be
used to manage that resource's CRUD operations. If a resource's
provider reference changes, the resource must be replaced. Though its
URN is not present in the resource's dependency list, the provider
should be treated as a dependency of the resource when topologically
sorting the dependency graph.
Finally, `Invoke` operations must now specify a provider to use for the
invocation via a provider reference.
### Engine Changes
First-class providers support requires a few changes to the engine:
- The engine must have some way to map from provider references to
provider plugins. It must be possible to add providers from a stack's
checkpoint to this map and to register new/updated providers during
the execution of a plan in response to CRUD operations on provider
resources.
- In order to support updating existing stacks using existing Pulumi
programs that may not explicitly instantiate providers, the engine
must be able to manage the "default" providers for each package
referenced by a checkpoint or Pulumi program. The configuration for
a "default" provider is taken from the stack's configuration data.
The former need is addressed by adding a provider registry type that is
responsible for managing all of the plugins required by a plan. In
addition to loading plugins froma checkpoint and providing the ability
to map from a provider reference to a provider plugin, this type serves
as the provider plugin for providers themselves (i.e. it is the
"provider provider").
The latter need is solved via two relatively self-contained changes to
plan setup and the eval source.
During plan setup, the old checkpoint is scanned for custom resources
that do not have a provider reference in order to compute the set of
packages that require a default provider. Once this set has been
computed, the required default provider definitions are conjured and
prepended to the checkpoint's resource list. Each resource that
requires a default provider is then updated to refer to the default
provider for its package.
While an eval source is running, each custom resource registration,
resource read, and invoke that does not name a provider is trapped
before being returned by the source iterator. If no default provider
for the appropriate package has been registered, the eval source
synthesizes an appropriate registration, waits for it to complete, and
records the registered provider's reference. This reference is injected
into the original request, which is then processed as usual. If a
default provider was already registered, the recorded reference is
used and no new registration occurs.
### SDK Changes
These changes only expose first-class providers from the Node.JS SDK.
- A new abstract class, `ProviderResource`, can be subclassed and used
to instantiate first-class providers.
- A new field in `ResourceOptions`, `provider`, can be used to supply
a particular provider instance to manage a `CustomResource`'s CRUD
operations.
- A new type, `InvokeOptions`, can be used to specify options that
control the behavior of a call to `pulumi.runtime.invoke`. This type
includes a `provider` field that is analogous to
`ResourceOptions.provider`.
* Protobuf changes to record dependencies for read resources
* Add a number of tests for read resources, especially around replacement
* Place read resources in the snapshot with "external" bit set
Fixespulumi/pulumi#1521. This commit introduces two new step ops: Read
and ReadReplacement. The engine generates Read and ReadReplacement steps
when servicing ReadResource RPC calls from the language host.
* Fix an omission of OpReadReplace from the step list
* Rebase against master
* Transition to use V2 Resources by default
* Add a semantic "relinquish" operation to the engine
If the engine observes that a resource is read and also that the
resource exists in the snapshot as a non-external resource, it will not
delete the resource if the IDs of the old and new resources match.
* Typo fix
* CR: add missing comments, DeserializeDeployment -> DeserializeDeploymentV2, ID check
A critical part of the partial update protocol is to return a structured
error when a resource is successfully created, but fails to initialize.
This structured error contains the properties of the
partially-initialized resource, and instructs the engine to halt.
Most languages implement this by attaching "details" to the error, i.e.,
an arbitrary proto message attached to the error. The JavaScript
implementation is not mature enough to include all the facilities
required to use this, so here we must add a `Status` message, which
protobuf requires as part of its structure for returning details.
The RPC provider interface needs a way to convey back to the engine
that a resource being read no longer exists. To do this, we'll return
the ID property that was read back. If it is empty, it means the
resource is gone. If it is non-empty, we expect it to match the input.
This change wires up the new Read RPC method in such a manner that
Pulumi programs can invoke it. This is technically not required for
refreshing state programmatically (as in pulumi/pulumi#1081), however
it's a feature we had eons ago and have wanted since (see
pulumi/pulumi#83), and will allow us to write code like
let vm = aws.ec2.Instance.get("my-vm", "i-07043cd97bd2c9cfc");
// use any property from here on out ...
The way this works is simply by bridging the Pulumi program via its
existing RPC connection to the engine, much like Invoke and
RegisterResource RPC requests already do, and then invoking the proper
resource provider in order to read the state. Note that some resources
cannot be uniquely identified by their ID alone, and so an extra
resource state bag may be provided with just those properties required.
This came almost for free (okay, not exactly) and will come in handy as
we start gaining experience with reading live state from resources.
This commit changes two things about our resource model:
* Stop performing Pulumi Engine-side diffing of resource state.
Instead, we defer to the resource plugins themselves to determine
whether a change was made and, if so, the extent of it. This
manifests as a simple change to the Diff function; it is done in
a backwards compatible way so that we continue with legacy diffing
for existing resource provider plugins.
* Add a Read RPC method for resource providers. It simply takes a
resource's ID and URN, plus an optional bag of further qualifying
state, and it returns the current property state as read back from
the actual live environment. Note that the optional bag of state
must at least include enough additional properties for resources
wherein the ID is insufficient for the provider to perform a lookup.
It may, however, include the full bag of prior state, for instance
in the case of a refresh operation.
This is part of pulumi/pulumi#1108.
* Improve the error message arising from missing required configs for
resource providers
If the resource provider that we are speaking to is new enough, it will send
across a list of keys and their descriptions alongside an error
indicating that the provider we are configuring is missing required
config. This commit packages up the list of missing keys into an error
that can be presented nicely to the user.
* Code review feedback: renaming simplification and correcting errors in comments
* Send structured errors across RPC boundaries
This brings us closer to gRPC best practices where we send structured
errors with error codes across RPC endpoints. The new "rpcerrors"
package can wrap errors from RPC endpoints, so RPC servers can attach
some additional context as to why a request failed.
* Code review feedback:
1. Rename rpcerrors -> rpcerror, better package name
2. Rename RPCError -> Error, RPCErrorCause -> ErrorCause, names
suggested by gometalinter to improve their package-qualified names
3. Fix import organization in rpcerror.go
This change includes a bunch of refactorings I made in prep for
doing refresh (first, the command, see pulumi/pulumi#1081):
* The primary change is to change the way the engine's core update
functionality works with respect to deploy.Source. This is the
way we can plug in new sources of resource information during
planning (and, soon, diffing). The way I intend to model refresh
is by having a new kind of source, deploy.RefreshSource, which
will let us do virtually everything about an update/diff the same
way with refreshes, which avoid otherwise duplicative effort.
This includes changing the planOptions (nee deployOptions) to
take a new SourceFunc callback, which is responsible for creating
a source specific to the kind of plan being requested.
Preview, Update, and Destroy now are primarily differentiated by
the kind of deploy.Source that they return, rather than sprinkling
things like `if Destroying` throughout. This tidies up some logic
and, more importantly, gives us precisely the refresh hook we need.
* Originally, we used the deploy.NullSource for Destroy operations.
This simply returns nothing, which is how Destroy works. For some
reason, we were no longer doing this, and instead had some
`if Destroying` cases sprinkled throughout the deploy.EvalSource.
I think this is a vestige of some old way we did configuration, at
least judging by a comment, which is apparently no longer relevant.
* Move diff and diff-printing logic within the engine into its own
pkg/engine/diff.go file, to prepare for upcoming work.
* I keep noticing benign diffs anytime I regenerate protobufs. I
suspect this is because we're also on different versions. I changed
generate.sh to also dump the version into grpc_version.txt. At
least we can understand where the diffs are coming from, decide
whether to take them (i.e., a newer version), and ensure that as
a team we are monotonically increasing, and not going backwards.
* I also tidied up some tiny things I noticed while in there, like
comments, incorrect types, lint suppressions, and so on.
This commit does two things:
1. All dependencies of a resource, both implicit and explicit, are
communicated directly to the engine when registering a resource. The
engine keeps track of these dependencies and ultimately serializes
them out to the checkpoint file upon successful deployment.
2. Once a successful deployment is done, the new `pulumi stack
graph` command reads the checkpoint file and outputs the dependency
information within in the DOT format.
Keeping track of dependency information within the checkpoint file is
desirable for a number of reasons, most notably delete-before-create,
where we want to delete resources before we have created their
replacement when performing an update.
This change adds a GetRequiredPlugins RPC method to the language
host, enabling us to query it for its list of plugin requirements.
This is language-specific because it requires looking at the set
of dependencies (e.g., package.json files).
It also adds a call up front during any update/preview operation
to compute the set of plugins and require that they are present.
These plugins are populated in the cache and will be used for all
subsequent plugin-related operations during the engine's activity.
We now cache the language plugins, so that we may load them
eagerly too, which we never did previously due to the fact that
we needed to pass the monitor address at load time. This was a
bit bizarre anyhow, since it's really the Run RPC function that
needs this information. So, to enable caching and eager loading
-- which we need in order to invoke GetRequiredPlugins -- the
"phone home" monitor RPC address is passed at Run time.
In a subsequent change, we will switch to faulting in the plugins
that are missing -- rather than erroring -- in addition to
supporting the `pulumi plugin install` CLI command.
This change implements resource protection, as per pulumi/pulumi#689.
The overall idea is that a resource can be marked as "protect: true",
which will prevent deletion of that resource for any reason whatsoever
(straight deletion, replacement, etc). This is expressed in the
program. To "unprotect" a resource, one must perform an update setting
"protect: false", and then afterwards, they can delete the resource.
For example:
let res = new MyResource("precious", { .. }, { protect: true });
Afterwards, the resource will display in the CLI with a lock icon, and
any attempts to remove it will fail in the usual ways (in planning or,
worst case, during an actual update).
This was done by adding a new ResourceOptions bag parameter to the
base Resource types. This is unfortunately a breaking change, but now
is the right time to take this one. We had been adding new settings
one by one -- like parent and dependsOn -- and this new approach will
set us up to add any number of additional settings down the road,
without needing to worry about breaking anything ever again.
This is related to protected stacks, as described in
pulumi/pulumi-service#399. Most likely this will serve as a foundational
building block that enables the coarser grained policy management.
This change adds rudimentary delete-before-create support (see
pulumi/pulumi#450). This cannot possibly be complete until we also
implement pulumi/pulumi#624, becuase we may try to delete a resource
while it still has dependent resources (which almost certainly will
fail). But until then, we can use this to manually unwedge ourselves
for leaf-node resources that do not support old and new resources
living side-by-side.
As documented in issue #616, the inputs/defaults/outputs model we have
today has fundamental problems. The crux of the issue is that our
current design requires that defaults present in the old state of a
resource are applied to the new inputs for that resource.
Unfortunately, it is not possible for the engine to decide which
defaults remain applicable and which do not; only the provider has that
knowledge.
These changes take a more tactical approach to resolving this issue than
that originally proposed in #616 that avoids breaking compatibility with
existing checkpoints. Rather than treating the Pulumi inputs as the
provider input properties for a resource, these inputs are first
translated by `Check`. In order to accommodate provider defaults that
were chosen for the old resource but should not change for the new,
`Check` now takes the old provider inputs as well as the new Pulumi
inputs. Rather than the Pulumi inputs and provider defaults, the
provider inputs returned by `Check` are recorded in the checkpoint file.
Put simply, these changes remove defaults as a first-class concept
(except inasmuch as is required to retain the ability to read old
checkpoint files) and move the responsibilty for manging and
merging defaults into the provider that supplies them.
Fixes#616.
This change adds a new manifest section to the checkpoint files.
The existing time moves into it, and we add to it the version of
the Pulumi CLI that created it, along with the names, types, and
versions of all plugins used to generate the file. There is a
magic cookie that we also use during verification.
This is to help keep us sane when debugging problems "in the wild,"
and I'm sure we will add more to it over time (checksum, etc).
For example, after an up, you can now see this in `pulumi stack`:
```
Current stack is demo:
Last updated at 2017-12-01 13:48:49.815740523 -0800 PST
Pulumi version v0.8.3-79-g1ab99ad
Plugin pulumi-provider-aws [resource] version v0.8.3-22-g4363e77
Plugin pulumi-langhost-nodejs [language] version v0.8.3-79-g77bb6b6
Checkpoint file is /Users/joeduffy/dev/code/src/github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/.pulumi/stacks/webserver/demo.json
```
This addresses pulumi/pulumi#628.
This change simplifies the necessary RPC changes for components.
Instead of a Begin/End pair, which complicates the whole system
because now we have the opportunity of a missing End call, we will
simply let RPCs come in that append outputs to existing states.
This change brings back component outputs to the overall system again.
In doing so, it generally overhauls the way we do resource RPCs a bit:
* Instead of RegisterResource and CompleteResource, we call these
BeginRegisterResource and EndRegisterResource, which begins to model
these as effectively "asynchronous" resource requests. This should also
help with parallelism (https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/106).
* Flip the CLI/engine a little on its head. Rather than it driving the
planning and deployment process, we move more to a model where it
simply observes it. This is done by implementing an event handler
interface with three events: OnResourceStepPre, OnResourceStepPost,
and OnResourceComplete. The first two are invoked immediately before
and after any step operation, and the latter is invoked whenever a
EndRegisterResource comes in. The reason for the asymmetry here is
that the checkpointing logic in the deployment engine is largely
untouched (intentionally, as this is a sensitive part of the system),
and so the "begin"/"end" nature doesn't flow through faithfully.
* Also make the engine more event-oriented in its terminology and the
way it handles the incoming BeginRegisterResource and
EndRegisterResource events from the language host. This is the first
step down a long road of incrementally refactoring the engine to work
this way, a necessary prerequisite for parallelism.
This change adds back component output properties. Doing so
requires splitting the RPC interface for creating resources in
half, with an initial RegisterResource which contains all of the
input properties, and a final CompleteResource which optionally
contains any output properties synthesized by the component.
This change switches from child lists to parent pointers, in the
way resource ancestries are represented. This cleans up a fair bit
of the old parenting logic, including all notion of ambient parent
scopes (and will notably address pulumi/pulumi#435).
This lets us show a more parent/child display in the output when
doing planning and updating. For instance, here is an update of
a lambda's text, which is logically part of a cloud timer:
* cloud:timer:Timer: (same)
[urn=urn:pulumi:malta::lm-cloud:☁️timer:Timer::lm-cts-malta-job-CleanSnapshots]
* cloud:function:Function: (same)
[urn=urn:pulumi:malta::lm-cloud:☁️function:Function::lm-cts-malta-job-CleanSnapshots]
* aws:serverless:Function: (same)
[urn=urn:pulumi:malta::lm-cloud::aws:serverless:Function::lm-cts-malta-job-CleanSnapshots]
~ aws:lambda/function:Function: (modify)
[id=lm-cts-malta-job-CleanSnapshots-fee4f3bf41280741]
[urn=urn:pulumi:malta::lm-cloud::aws:lambda/function:Function::lm-cts-malta-job-CleanSnapshots]
- code : archive(assets:2092f44) {
// etc etc etc
Note that we still get walls of text, but this will be actually
quite nice when combined with pulumi/pulumi#454.
I've also suppressed printing properties that didn't change during
updates when --detailed was not passed, and also suppressed empty
strings and zero-length arrays (since TF uses these as defaults in
many places and it just makes creation and deletion quite verbose).
Note that this is a far cry from everything we can possibly do
here as part of pulumi/pulumi#340 (and even pulumi/pulumi#417).
But it's a good start towards taming some of our output spew.
This change adds functions, `pulumi.getProject()` and `pulumi.getStack()`,
to fetch the names of the project and stack, respectively. These can be
handy in generating names, specializing areas of the code, etc.
This fixespulumi/pulumi#429.
This changes a few things about "components":
* Rename what was previously ExternalResource to CustomResource,
and all of the related fields and parameters that this implies.
This just seems like a much nicer and expected name for what
these represent. I realize I am stealing a name we had thought
about using elsewhere, but this seems like an appropriate use.
* Introduce ComponentResource, to make initializing resources
that merely aggregate other resources easier to do correctly.
* Add a withParent and parentScope concept to Resource, to make
allocating children less error-prone. Now there's no need to
explicitly adopt children as they are allocated; instead, any
children allocated as part of the withParent callback will
auto-parent to the resource provided. This is used by
ComponentResource's initialization function to make initialization
easier, including the distinction between inputs and outputs.
This change implements core support for "components" in the Pulumi
Fabric. This work is described further in pulumi/pulumi#340, where
we are still discussing some of the finer points.
In a nutshell, resources no longer imply external providers. It's
entirely possible to have a resource that logically represents
something but without having a physical manifestation that needs to
be tracked and managed by our typical CRUD operations.
For example, the aws/serverless/Function helper is one such type.
It aggregates Lambda-related resources and exposes a nice interface.
All of the Pulumi Cloud Framework resources are also examples.
To indicate that a resource does participate in the usual CRUD resource
provider, it simply derives from ExternalResource instead of Resource.
All resources now have the ability to adopt children. This is purely
a metadata/tagging thing, and will help us roll up displays, provide
attribution to the developer, and even hide aspects of the resource
graph as appropriate (e.g., when they are implementation details).
Our use of this capability is ultra limited right now; in fact, the
only place we display children is in the CLI output. For instance:
+ aws:serverless:Function: (create)
[urn=urn:pulumi:demo::serverless::aws:serverless:Function::mylambda]
=> urn:pulumi:demo::serverless::aws:iam/role:Role::mylambda-iamrole
=> urn:pulumi:demo::serverless::aws:iam/rolePolicyAttachment:RolePolicyAttachment::mylambda-iampolicy-0
=> urn:pulumi:demo::serverless::aws:lambda/function:Function::mylambda
The bit indicating whether a resource is external or not is tracked
in the resulting checkpoint file, along with any of its children.
This change adds the capability for a resource provider to indicate
that, where an action carried out in response to a diff, a certain set
of properties would be "stable"; that is to say, they are guaranteed
not to change. As a result, properties may be resolved to their final
values during previewing, avoiding erroneous cascading impacts.
This avoids the ever-annoying situation I keep running into when demoing:
when adding or removing an ingress rule to a security group, we ripple
the impact through the instance, and claim it must be replaced, because
that instance depends on the security group via its name. Well, the name
is a great example of a stable property, in that it will never change, and
so this is truly unfortunate and always adds uncertainty into the demos.
Particularly since the actual update doesn't need to perform replacements.
This resolvespulumi/pulumi#330.
This change enables us to make progress on exposing data sources
(see pulumi/pulumi-terraform#29). The idea is to have an Invoke
function that simply takes a function token and arguments, performs
the function lookup and invocation, and then returns a return value.
This includes a few changes:
* The repo name -- and hence the Go modules -- changes from pulumi-fabric to pulumi.
* The Node.js SDK package changes from @pulumi/pulumi-fabric to just pulumi.
* The CLI is renamed from lumi to pulumi.
This change flips the polarity on parallelism: rather than having a
--serialize flag, we will have a --parallel=P flag, and by default
we will shut off parallelism. We aren't benefiting from it at the
moment (until we implement pulumi/pulumi-fabric#106), and there are
more hidden dependencies in places like AWS Lambdas and Permissions
than I had realized. We may revisit the default, but this allows
us to bite off the messiness of dependsOn only when we benefit from
it. And in any case, the --parallel=P capability will be useful.
This change adds an optiona dependsOn parameter to Resource constructors,
to "force" a fake dependency between resources. We have an extremely strong
desire to resort to using this only in unusual cases -- and instead rely
on the natural dependency DAG based on properties -- but experience in other
resource provisioning frameworks tells us that we're likely to need this in
the general case. Indeed, we've already encountered the need in AWS's
API Gateway resources... and I suspect we'll run into more especially as we
tackle non-serverless resources like EC2 Instances, where "ambient"
dependencies are far more commonplace.
This also makes parallelism the default mode of operation, and we have a
new --serialize flag that can be used to suppress this default behavior.
Full disclosure: I expect this to become more Make-like, i.e. -j 8, where
you can specify the precise width of parallelism, when we tackle
pulumi/pulumi-fabric#106. I also think there's a good chance we will flip
the default, so that serial execution is the default, so that developers
who don't benefit from the parallelism don't need to worry about dependsOn
in awkward ways. This tends to be the way most tools (like Make) operate.
This fixespulumi/pulumi-fabric#335.
If a resource's planning operation is to do nothing, we can safely
assume that all of its properties are stable. This can be used during
planning to avoid cascading updates that we know will never happen.
