How to Install & Set Up Pulumi

Install Pulumi and define infrastructure with real programming languages — TypeScript, Python, Go, or .NET.

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Prerequisites

✓A language runtime you want to use (Node.js, Python, Go, or .NET)
✓A Pulumi Cloud account or a self-managed state backend

Install the Pulumi CLI

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://get.pulumi.com | sh

macOS (Homebrew)

brew install pulumi/tap/pulumi

Windows (Chocolatey)

choco install pulumi

Verify the installation

terminal

pulumi version

The install script and Homebrew/Chocolatey packages above are already the same on RHEL, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu — there's no separate distro-specific repo needed. Pulumi's CLI itself is source-available rather than fully open source; the SDKs it drives are Apache-2.0.

Create your first project

terminal

mkdir my-infra && cd my-infra
pulumi new typescript
pulumi up

Documentation & Knowledge Base

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