[paulgb]

I’ve been pretty happy with Pulumi but have learned that state management can be a pain.

I got myself into a situation recently that I could only get out of by using the CLI interactively. I wound up with multiple copies of each resource, which shared a URN, so when I tried to delete them from the CLI it would always prompt me for which instance of that URN to delete. I ended up spending much of a day writing a program to call their CLI and then interact with it programmatically because I had hundreds of resources to delete.

Since then I’ve been doing more with CloudFormation directly and am tempted to switch.