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.
As explained in pulumi/pulumi-fabric#293, we were a little ad-hoc in
how configuration was "applied" to resource providers.
In fact, config wasn't ever communicated directly to providers; instead,
the resource providers would simply ask the engine to read random heap
locations (via tokens). Now that we're on a plan where configuration gets
handed to the program at startup, and that's that, and where generally
speaking resource providers never communicate directly with the language
runtime, we need to take a different approach.
As such, the resource provider interface now offers a Configure RPC
method that the resource planning engine will invoke at the right
times with the right subset of configuration variables filtered to
just that provider's package. This fixespulumi/pulumi#293.
This change simplifies the provider RPC interface slightly:
1) Eliminate Get. We really don't need it anymore. There are
several possibly-interesting scenarios down the road that may
demand it, but when we get there, we can consider how best to
bring this back. Furthermore, the old-style Get remains mostly
incompatible with Terraform anyway.
2) Pass URNs, not type tokens, across the RPC boundary. This gives
the provider access to more interesting information: the type,
still, but also the name (which is no longer an object property).
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.
