Pulumi Best Practices

When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when:

• Writing new Pulumi programs or components
• Reviewing Pulumi code for correctness
• Refactoring existing Pulumi infrastructure
• Debugging resource dependency issues
• Setting up configuration and secrets

Practices

1. Never Create Resources Inside apply()

Why: Resources created inside apply() don't appear in pulumi preview, making changes unpredictable. Pulumi cannot properly track dependencies, leading to race conditions and deployment failures.

Detection signals: