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Last time I checked (admittedly, not so hard) I discovered that Pulumi only works by calling in to the mothership: i.e.: you cannot build an airgapped infrastructure with it.

This was very off-putting for me, and I had to give up on Pulumi. Is something changed on this regard?

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You totally can. They support storing pulumi state in any storage platform (like S3 or self hosted minio service)

The cloud offering is just there to streamline the storage + fancy dashboard.

Identical to how terraform works.

Thank you.

So this is a case of me not looking well enough while exploring many different solutions.

I have to say that reading this passage on one of the getting started guides (https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/azure/create-project...):

> If this is your first time running pulumi new or most other pulumi commands, you will be prompted to log in to the Pulumi service. > The Pulumi CLI works in tandem with the Pulumi service in order to deliver a reliable experience. It is free for individual use, with features available for teams.

did not help. At least mentioning that the Pulumi service could be self hosted would have helped.

Thanks again.

I agree – their marketing site doesn't exactly go out of its way to help you find out whether there's a free option.

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