An example based on the basic Amazon EC2 Instance sample at: http:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/deploying.applications.html. The example deploys an EC2 instance and opens port 80. To get the correct Amazon Linux AMI for the instance size and region, a mapping is defined in ami.py.

1. Install Pulumi
2. Configure Pulumi for AWS
3. Configure Pulumi for Python

1. Login to the Pulumi CLI via pulumi login.

2. Initialize a Pulumi repository with pulumi init, using your GitHub username. (Note: this step will be removed in the future.)

   $ pulumi init --owner githubUsername

3. Create a new stack:

   $ pulumi stack init webserver-testing
   Created stack 'webserver-testing'.
   

4. Run pulumi preview:

   $ pulumi preview
   Previewing stack 'python-test' in the Pulumi Cloud ☁️
   Previewing changes:
   
   pulumi:Stack("webserver-py-python-test"): Completed 
   aws:SecurityGroup("web-secgrp"):          + Would create 
   aws:Instance("web-server-www"):           + Would create 
   info: 3 changes previewed:
       + 3 resources to create
   

5. Run pulumi update:

   $ pulumi update
   Updating stack 'python-test' in the Pulumi Cloud ☁️
   Performing changes:
   
   pulumi:Stack("webserver-py-python-test"): Completed 
   aws:SecurityGroup("web-secgrp"):          + Created 
   aws:Instance("web-server-www"):           + Created 
   info: 3 changes performed:
       + 3 resources created
   Update duration: 26.445180782s
   

6. Verify that the EC2 instance exists, by either using the AWS Console or running aws ec2 describe-instances.

7. Clean up resources by running pulumi destroy.