06-creating-a-second-stack.md

Creating a Second Stack

It is easy to create multiple instances of the same project. This is called a stack. This is handy for multiple development or test environments, staging versus production, and scaling a given infrastructure across many regions.

Step 1 — Create and Configure a New Stack

Create a new stack:

pulumi stack init prod

Next, configure its two required variables:

pulumi config set azure:location westeurope
pulumi config set iac-workshop:container htmlprod

If you are ever curious to see the list of stacks for your current project, run this command:

pulumi stack ls

It will print all stacks for this project that are available to you:

NAME   LAST UPDATE     RESOURCE COUNT  URL
dev    30 minutes ago  4               https://app.pulumi.com/myuser/iac-workshop/dev
prod*  3 minutes ago   0               https://app.pulumi.com/myuser/iac-workshop/prod

Step 2 — Deploy the New Stack

Now deploy all of the changes:

pulumi up

This will create an entirely new set of resources from scratch, unrelated to the existing dev stack's resources.

Updating (prod):

     Type                         Name               Status
 +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack          iac-workshop-prod  created
 +   ├─ azure:core:ResourceGroup  my-group           created     
 +   ├─ azure:storage:Account     mystorage          created     
 +   └─ azure:storage:Container   mycontainer        created 

Outputs:
    AccountName: "mystorage4a3f2830"

Resources:
    + 4 created

Duration: 30s

Permalink: https://app.pulumi.com/myuser/iac-workshop/prod/updates/1

A new set of resources has been created for the prod stack.

Next Steps

• Destroying Your Infrastructure