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A Pulumi package to safely use randomness in Pulumi programs.

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Random Provider

The random provider allows the safe use of randomness in a Pulumi program. This allows you to generate resource properties, such as names, that contain randomness in a way that works with Pulumi’s goal state oriented approach. Using randomness as usual would not work well with Pulumi, because by definition, each time the program is evaluated, a new random state would be produced, necessitating re-convergence on the goal state. This provider understands how to work with the Pulumi resource lifecycle to accomplish randomness safely and in a way that works as desired.

Example

For example, to generate a random string, simply allocate a resource:

const random = require("@pulumi/random");
const password = new random.RandomString("password", {
    length: 16,
    special: true,
    overrideSpecial: "/@\" ",
});

From there we can use its result output property, of type Output<string>, to pass to another resource.

Installing

This package is available in many languages in the standard packaging formats.

Node.js (Java/TypeScript)

To use from JavaScript or TypeScript in Node.js, install using either npm:

$ npm install @pulumi/random

or yarn:

$ yarn add @pulumi/random

Python

To use from Python, install using pip:

$ pip install pulumi_random

Go

To use from Go, use go get to grab the latest version of the library

$ go get github.com/pulumi/pulumi-random/sdk/go/...

Reference

For detailed reference documentation, please visit the API docs.

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