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  5. Aiven Setup

Aiven Setup

The Pulumi Aiven provider uses the Aiven SDK to manage and provision resources.

Pulumi relies on the Aiven SDK to authenticate requests from your computer to Aiven. Your credentials are never sent to pulumi.com.

The Pulumi Aiven Provider needs to be configured with Aiven credentials before it can be used to create resources.

Configuring Credentials

Once obtained, there are two ways to communicate your authorization tokens to Pulumi:

  1. Set the environment variable AIVEN_API_TOKEN:

    $ export AIVEN_API_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  2. Set them using configuration, if you prefer that they be stored alongside your Pulumi stack for easy multi-user access:

    $ pulumi config set aiven:apiToken XXXXXXXXXXXXXX --secret

Remember to pass --secret when setting aiven:apiToken so that it is properly encrypted. A full set of configuration parameters can be found listed on the Project README.