pulumi/developer-docs/architecture/overview.md

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Pulumi Architecture Overview

Broadly speaking, Pulumi is composed of five components:

  1. The deployment engine
  2. State storage backends
  3. Language SDKs
  4. Resource providers
  5. Package schemas and code generators

These components interact to provide the feature set exposed by the Pulumi CLI and SDKs, including desired-state deployments using standard programming languages, remote state storage and secret encryption, and the ability to bridge the gap between existing and Pulumi-managed infrastructure.

These components are composed like so:

Pulumi CLI

In most cases, the language plugin, CLI, and resource providers will all live in separate processes, and each instance of a resource provider will live in its own process.

The Deployment Engine

State Storage Backends

Language SDKs

Resource Providers

Package Schemas and Code Generators