not able to recover pulumi source code resources

[eduwebmonster]

Hello, Have created the pulumi azure typescript project and somehow lost the source code (files like index.ts etc.) . By searching the doc, have found the following steps to recover the configuration.

Recovering Configuration Deleting this stack or this stack's resources requires that you have a Pulumi.yaml file in the same directory.

# Pulumi.yaml
echo "name: azure_cloud_proj" > Pulumi.yaml
echo "runtime: nodejs" >> Pulumi.yaml

# Pulumi.dev.yaml
pulumi stack select azure_cloud_infra/azure_cloud_proj/dev
pulumi config refresh

the issue is , the doc is not bit clear. should we create the same directory as previous and run above commands OR any directory would do ?

further, just created the same directory as previous and ran the command . got the following error : please suggest

C:\azure_cloud_infra>pulumi stack select azure_cloud_infra/azure_cloud_proj/dev
error: could not get cloud url: could not load current project: yaml: unmarshal errors:
  line 1: cannot unmarshal !!str `name: a...` into workspace.Project

C:\azure_cloud_infra>

[eduwebmonster]

please suggest

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : can you please suggest ?

[joeduffy]

Any directory should do. I agree this is a bit unfortunate, I think we have a bug tracking the idea of being able to destroy without a working directory, but that would require slight changes to the way configuration works. @justinvp Is that right?

As to the latest error, it appears there's a problem with the YAML unmarshaling, and that the Pulumi.yaml file contains invalid YAML. Provided there isn't anything sensitive in there, would you mind sharing the contents of the file?

[eduwebmonster]

Thanks. this is what we have in pulumi.yaml. please suggest

"name: azure_cloud_proj" 
"runtime: nodejs" 

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : please suggest

[joeduffy]

I think you can remove the quotes and it should work:

name: azure_cloud_proj
runtime: nodejs

Can you give this a try?

If so, and assuming you found those echo instructions that led to the quotes on our website, could you share a link to it so we can fix the problem with the documentation?

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : Thanks . it worked. however, pulumi up command is not working. following is the error we are getting.

C:\azure_cloud_infra>pulumi up Previewing update (azure_cloud_infra/dev)

View Live: https://app.pulumi.com/azure_cloud_infra/azure_cloud_proj/dev/previews/f059b778-9587-4d46-ba52-b1989356677a

 Type                 Name                  Plan     Info
 pulumi:pulumi:Stack  azure_cloud_proj-dev           1 message

Diagnostics: pulumi:pulumi:Stack (azure_cloud_proj-dev): error: could not find node on the $PATH: exec: "node": executable file not found in %PATH%

error: failed to load language plugin nodejs: could not read plugin [C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\pulumi\tools\Pulumi\bin\pulumi-language-nodejs.exe] stdout: EOF

C:\azure_cloud_infra>

is this expected ? if so, what is the recommended steps to recover all typescripts files along with state so that we can run "pulumi up" command. Thanks

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : any update ?

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : any update please ? this is blocker for us . if you are busy , can you assign any one of your engineer to work on this ? I feel it is very simple but unnecessary getting streched.

[joeduffy]

It looks like Node.js might not be installed? That is a required dependency for Pulumi projects that use Node.js as the language runtime. Instructions for how to install are available at https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/azure/begin/#install-language-runtime

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : after installing node.js , now complaining for some pulumi SDK

C:\azure_cloud_infra>pulumi up Previewing update (azure_cloud_infra/dev)

View Live: https://app.pulumi.com/azure_cloud_infra/azure_cloud_proj/dev/previews/0810ca6d-adc0-4bd6-817a-d2104c9893d1

 Type                 Name                  Plan     Info
 pulumi:pulumi:Stack  azure_cloud_proj-dev           1 message

Diagnostics: pulumi:pulumi:Stack (azure_cloud_proj-dev): error: It looks like the Pulumi SDK has not been installed. Have you run npm install or yarn install?

warning: A new version of Pulumi is available. To upgrade from version '3.5.1' to '3.6.0', visit https://pulumi.com/docs/reference/install/ for manual instructions and release notes. error: failed to load language plugin nodejs: could not read plugin [C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\pulumi\tools\Pulumi\bin\pulumi-language-nodejs.exe] stdout: EOF

after googling , haven't found any good link which says how to install pulumi SDK

[joeduffy]

Installation instructions are here: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/get-started/install/. You would need to npm install @pulumi/pulumi to get the SDK. However, I thought you were just trying to destroy a stack -- if you don't have the source code, pulumi up isn't going to work. To destroy, you can run pulumi destroy, which shouldn't require the SDK.

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : the sole purpose of this ticket is to : "how to recover the deleted source code of pulumi resources"

I am not just trying to destroy the stack but trying to understand how to recover all typescripts source code which got deleted accidently.

please suggest

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : please suggest

[eduwebmonster]

@joeduffy : any update please ? this is blocker