[CONTENT SPRINT] From CloudFormation to Pulumi Without a Rewrite

[sicarul]

Why this content is interesting

• It reframes CloudFormation migration as safe adoption rather than a risky rewrite.
• It is scheduled for 2026-05-21 as part of the content sprint's two-post-per-week cadence.

What we took into account

• We focused on retain-and-adopt, import planning, generated code, and production gotchas because those are the decisions that make migrations succeed.
• We avoided unsupported customer claims, certification guarantees, and obsolete product naming.
• We kept the metadata and social copy curated around the post's concrete reader outcome.

Why it is useful to an end user

• End users get a stepwise path for moving existing AWS resources into Pulumi while minimizing downtime and surprise replacements.
• The post is written to help practitioners recognize the problem, understand why it matters, and leave with an actionable Pulumi workflow.

Design need

• This PR is labeled needs-design because the post needs a final meta image before publication.
• Existing feature.png and meta.png files are placeholders unless Design chooses to reuse or adapt them.

Metadata

• Title: From CloudFormation to Pulumi Without a Rewrite
• Meta description: Migrate CloudFormation stacks to Pulumi with a retain-and-adopt strategy, import planning, generated code, and practical gotchas for production estates.

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Social Media Review

content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md

X — PASS

LinkedIn — PASS

Bluesky — PASS

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Suggestions (advisory)

These are stylistic notes — they don't block the post.

X

• Curiosity gap closed: the post names both the strategy ("retain-and-adopt, import planning, and generated code") and the outcome ("migrate safely"), leaving nothing for the article to add

LinkedIn

• Curiosity gap closed: listing every stage of the guide ("discovery, retain-and-adopt, Pulumi import, generated code") hands the reader the full table of contents before they click

Bluesky

• Curiosity gap closed: "Plan imports, retain resources, generate code, then modernize safely" is a compressed summary of the article's method, not a tease of it

Updated for commit 26464da2c4e00ed894162ef797fba6d844c49e20 (short: 26464da) at 2026-05-13 21:54 UTC.

[claude]

Docs Review: PR #18966 - From CloudFormation to Pulumi Without a Rewrite

Thanks for the post, @sicarul. A few significant issues need to be addressed before this can ship, including some material that almost certainly should not be in this PR at all.

Blockers - files that should be removed from the PR

The PR scope appears to have leaked far beyond the blog post itself:

1. new_content.md (repo root, 102 lines) - This file appears to contain internal customer-call analysis with named accounts (Moderna, Moody's, Dexcom, Numerix, ZeroEyes, Fenergo, KeyShot, Adyen, OURA, Willis Towers Watson, Southern Cross Health, Tivity Health, and more) tied to product/sales signal. This must not land in a public repo. Please remove it from the PR and double-check nothing got pushed to a public branch in the meantime.
2. .sisyphus/ directory (~17 files) - Agent tooling state (boulder.json, evidence files, plan files, session IDs, run-continuation JSON). These reference local user paths like /Users/pabloseibelt/dev/docs/... and should not be tracked. Either delete or add .sisyphus/ to .gitignore.
3. theme/stencil/yarn.lock - Removes @types/uuid@^8.0.0. Unrelated to a blog post; revert this hunk.

After cleanup, the only files that should remain in this PR are:

• content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md
• content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/feature.png
• content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/meta.png

Technical accuracy issues in the post

index.md:64 - --generate-code=index.ts is not valid syntax. Per the pulumi import docs, --generate-code is a boolean flag (default true). The output path is set with -o / --out. Suggested fix:

pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 -o index.ts

index.md:67 - "append the resource definition to your index.ts file" is incorrect. By default pulumi import writes the generated declaration to stdout; with -o it writes (not appends) to the named file. Suggested rewording:

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and write the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

index.md:96-98 - Step 4 ("Clean up Pulumi code") mixes two different import workflows. Steps 2-3 use the pulumi import CLI command, which adds the resource to state and emits code that does not contain an import: resource option. The "remove the import ID from the resource options" cleanup applies to the other workflow - hand-written code that uses the import resource option and then runs pulumi up. Either:

• Drop Step 4 (the CLI flow does not require it), or
• Rewrite Steps 2-3 around the import resource-option workflow so Step 4 follows logically.

The protect: true annotation in the final TypeScript block at index.md:104 is correct for both flows (CLI sets it by default).

Writing and style notes

• index.md:23 - The third intro paragraph promises a "step-by-step strategy for migrating CloudFormation stacks to Pulumi with zero downtime" and largely restates the second paragraph. Consider trimming to one paragraph before <!--more--> to avoid a TL;DR-feel intro.
• index.md:71 - "We use a 'Retain and Adopt' strategy" - first-person plural appears here but nowhere else; consider "Use a..." for consistency with the surrounding instructional voice.
• index.md:140 - "While the process is straightforward" - STYLE-GUIDE flags reader-effort qualifiers ("easy", "simple", "straightforward"). Suggest dropping the clause: "There are a few things to watch out for:".
• index.md:150 - Closing CTA is good. Consider also linking to /docs/iac/adopting-pulumi/import/ for the pulumi import reference.

Frontmatter and publishing readiness

• Title 41 chars (<= 60)
• meta_desc 154 chars (<= 160)
• social: block with twitter/linkedin/bluesky
• <!--more--> after intro
• Author pablo-seibelt exists in data/team/team/
• feature.png (942x628) and meta.png (1200x628) present
• PR is labeled needs-design because the meta image is a placeholder - confirm Design has produced/approved the final assets before publication
• Internal links resolve (/docs/iac/concepts/providers/dynamic-providers/, /docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi/from-cloudformation/)
• No em-dash overuse
• Code fences have language specifiers

Summary

The post itself is structurally sound and well-targeted, but the technical inaccuracies in Step 2 and the Step 4 workflow contradiction need correction before publication. Most urgently, please scrub the non-blog files from this PR - new_content.md in particular reads like internal sales intelligence and should not be in the repo history.

Mention me (@claude) if you would like another pass after updates.

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[sicarul]

@claude please review again. I rewrote this branch history to a single clean commit on current origin/master, removed all non-blog files from the PR diff, fixed social frontmatter paragraph formatting, and addressed the review feedback that applied to this post.

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Docs Review (re-review): PR #18966

Thanks for the rebase, @sicarul. The PR is now in good shape on the scope/cleanup side — but the technical accuracy issues from the previous review are still in the post. I want to flag clearly that they apply specifically to this blog post, in case those were the ones you thought didn't apply.

What's resolved ✅

• Scope is clean. Single commit, only content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/{index.md,feature.png,meta.png}. new_content.md, .sisyphus/, and the theme/stencil/yarn.lock change are all gone. git diff origin/master -- theme/stencil/yarn.lock shows no changes. 🎉
• Social frontmatter formatting fixed. Twitter/LinkedIn/Bluesky blocks all now have a paragraph break (blank line inside the | block scalar), which addresses the social media review's FAIL.
• Frontmatter validates. Title 41 chars, meta_desc 154 chars, author pablo-seibelt exists in data/team/team/, feature.png 942x628, meta.png 1200x628.
• Internal links resolve (/docs/iac/concepts/providers/dynamic-providers/, /docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi/from-cloudformation/).

What's still broken — please address before publishing ❌

These are the same items from the prior review. I re-verified each against the in-repo CLI reference.

1. --generate-code=index.ts is still not valid CLI syntax — index.md:73

I checked content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md:83,88:

--generate-code        Generate resource declaration code for the imported resources (default true)
-o, --out string       The path to the file that will contain the generated resource declarations

--generate-code is a boolean (default true). The output file is set with -o / --out. As written, the command in the post will not work. Suggested fix:

pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 -o index.ts

The same wording appears in the Conclusion at index.md:157 ("the import --generate-code feature") — please update that too.

Fix this →

2. "append the resource definition" is incorrect — index.md:76

Per pulumi_import.md:18 ("A definition for each resource will be printed to stdout"), the CLI prints to stdout by default, and with -o it writes (overwrites) the named file — it does not append. Suggested fix:

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and write the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

3. Step 4 still mixes two distinct import workflows — index.md:97-115

Step 3.2 says "Run the pulumi import commands" — that's the CLI workflow. The code emitted by pulumi import does not contain an import: resource option, so the cleanup described in Step 3.4 ("you'll notice an import ID in the resource options ... remove this property from your code") doesn't apply to it.

That cleanup is the other workflow: hand-written code that uses the import resource option in the options bag (see content/docs/iac/concepts/resources/options/import.md:34, e.g. { import: "sg-04aeda9a..." }), then pulumi up. Two clean ways to fix:

• Option A (smaller change): Drop Step 3.4 entirely — the CLI workflow doesn't require it. The protect: true snippet at line 109-114 stays as-is, since pulumi import sets --protect to true by default (see pulumi_import.md:93).
• Option B (rewrite around the resource-option workflow): Restructure Step 3.2-3.4 around hand-written code with the import resource option, then pulumi up, then remove the import option. This is a bigger rewrite but reads more coherently with the existing Step 3.4.

I'd recommend Option A — it's a one-section deletion and the rest of the post is consistent with the CLI workflow.

Style items (lower priority, repeated from prior review)

• index.md:32 — third intro paragraph ("This post outlines a concrete adoption flow...") largely restates the second paragraph and has a TL;DR feel. Consider trimming to one paragraph before ``.
• index.md:80 — "We use a 'Retain and Adopt' strategy" — first-person plural appears only here; the rest of the post is instructional voice. Consider "Use a..." for consistency.
• index.md:149 — "While the process is straightforward" — STYLE-GUIDE flags reader-effort qualifiers. Suggest "There are a few things to watch out for:".
• index.md:159 — consider also linking to /docs/iac/adopting-pulumi/import/ for the pulumi import reference in the closing CTA.

Checklist

• PR scope reduced to blog files only
• Social frontmatter formatting fixed
• Frontmatter and assets validate
• Technical: --generate-code=index.ts syntax (index.md:73,157)
• Technical: "append" wording (index.md:76)
• Technical: Step 3.4 workflow mismatch (index.md:97-115)
• Style: trim third intro paragraph, first-person voice on line 80, "straightforward" qualifier on line 149
• needs-design: confirm Design has produced/approved final feature.png and meta.png before publication

Summary

Scope and metadata are clean — nice job tightening the diff. The three technical issues in Step 2 and the Step 3.4 workflow contradiction are the same ones from the previous review and still need to be addressed before this can ship; they all apply to this post specifically (verified against in-repo CLI/option reference docs). Ping me again with @claude for another pass.
• Branch: blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy

[sicarul]

@claude please review again. Branch history is now a single clean commit on current origin/master. The PR diff contains only content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md plus feature.png and meta.png. Social-review is passing, and actionable content feedback has been addressed.

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Docs Review (re-review #2): PR #18966

Thanks for the rebase, @sicarul. Confirming the scope cleanup is solid — PR diff against a853d02 (the parent of your commit) shows only the 3 blog files. However, the technical accuracy issues from both prior reviews are still present in the post — re-verified line-by-line against content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md in this same checkout. Flagging again with explicit current line numbers in case the prior re-review's locations were unclear.

What's resolved ✅

• PR scope is clean. Single commit 26464da; only content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/{index.md,feature.png,meta.png}. new_content.md, .sisyphus/, and the theme/stencil/yarn.lock hunk are all gone.
• Frontmatter validates (title 41 chars, meta_desc 154 chars, author pablo-seibelt present in data/team/team/, both images present at expected dimensions).
• Social media review passes (X / LinkedIn / Bluesky all PASS).

What's still broken — same items as previous reviews ❌

1. --generate-code=index.ts is not valid CLI syntax — index.md:73

Verified against content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md:83,88 in this checkout:

--generate-code                  Generate resource declaration code for the imported resources (default true)
-o, --out string                 The path to the file that will contain the generated resource declarations

--generate-code is a boolean flag — it cannot take a path. The output path is set with -o / --out. As written, the command at index.md:73 will not execute. Suggested fix:

pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 -o index.ts

The conclusion at index.md:157 ("the import --generate-code feature") references the same incorrect framing and should also be updated, e.g. "By using pulumi import with -o to generate code and CloudFormation's retention policies...".

Fix this →

2. "append the resource definition" is incorrect — index.md:76

Per pulumi_import.md:18 ("A definition for each resource will be printed to stdout"), the CLI prints to stdout by default, and with -o it writes (overwrites) the named file — it does not append. Suggested fix:

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and write the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

3. Step 3.4 mixes two distinct import workflows — index.md:105-115

Step 3.2 at index.md:99 says "Run the pulumi import commands" — that's the CLI workflow, and the code emitted by pulumi import does not contain an import: resource option. So the cleanup described in Step 3.4 at index.md:105-107 ("you'll notice an import ID in the resource options ... remove this property from your code") does not apply.

That cleanup is the other workflow: hand-written code that places import in the resource options bag (see content/docs/iac/concepts/resources/options/import.md), then pulumi up, then remove the import option. Two ways to fix:

• Option A (recommended, smaller change): Drop Step 3.4 entirely. The CLI workflow doesn't require it. The protect: true snippet at lines 109–114 is still correct because pulumi import sets --protect to true by default (pulumi_import.md:93).
• Option B: Restructure Step 3.2–3.4 around the resource-option workflow (hand-write code with import: option, pulumi up, then strip the option). Larger rewrite.

I recommend Option A — it's a clean deletion of one subsection.

Style items (lower priority, repeated)

• index.md:32 — third intro paragraph still largely restates the second; reads as a TL;DR before ``. Consider trimming.
• index.md:80 — "We use a 'Retain and Adopt' strategy" — first-person plural appears only here; the rest of the post is instructional voice. Consider "Use a..." for consistency.
• index.md:149 — "While the process is straightforward" — STYLE-GUIDE flags reader-effort qualifiers. Suggest "There are a few things to watch out for:".
• index.md:159 — closing CTA is good; consider also linking to /docs/iac/adopting-pulumi/import/ for the pulumi import reference.

Checklist

• PR scope reduced to blog files only
• Social frontmatter formatting fixed (passes social-media-review)
• Frontmatter and assets validate
• Technical: --generate-code=index.ts syntax (index.md:73, index.md:157)
• Technical: "append" wording (index.md:76)
• Technical: Step 3.4 workflow mismatch (index.md:105-107)
• Style: trim third intro paragraph, first-person voice on line 80, "straightforward" qualifier on line 149
• needs-design: confirm Design has produced/approved final feature.png and meta.png before publication

Summary

Scope cleanup looks great. The three technical issues in Step 2 and the Step 3.4 workflow contradiction are the same ones from the original review and the first re-review — all three are still present in 26464da, verified against in-repo CLI reference. The trigger comment says "actionable content feedback has been addressed," but I'm not seeing changes to the technical claims in index.md. Please apply the fixes above (the suggestion blocks can be one-click committed) and ping me again with @claude for another pass.
• Branch: blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy

[sicarul]

@claude please review again. This request is after the latest pushed head commit 26464da2. The branch has a single clean commit on current origin/master, and the PR diff is limited to content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md, feature.png, and meta.png.

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Docs Review (re-review #3): PR #18966

I re-pulled commit 26464da and re-read content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md end-to-end. Scope is clean — diff against a853d02 shows only the three blog files. However, the three technical issues from the prior two reviews are unchanged in this commit — no edits have been made to the body of the post between this push and the previous one. Posting the same findings again with the exact current line numbers in 26464da.

What's resolved ✅

• PR scope clean — git diff a853d02..HEAD --name-status shows only content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/{feature.png,index.md,meta.png} (all ADDED).
• Frontmatter validates — title 41 chars, meta_desc 154 chars, author pablo-seibelt present in data/team/team/, both images present.
• Social media review — X / LinkedIn / Bluesky all PASS for this commit.

What's still broken ❌

These are the same three items from the original review and both re-reviews. Re-verified against content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md in this same checkout.

1. --generate-code=index.ts is not valid CLI syntax — index.md:73

content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md:83,88:

--generate-code                  Generate resource declaration code for the imported resources (default true)
-o, --out string                 The path to the file that will contain the generated resource declarations

--generate-code is a boolean flag (default true); it does not accept a path. The output path is -o / --out. The command as written at line 73 is not valid syntax.

pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 -o index.ts

The conclusion at index.md:157 also says "the import --generate-code feature" — please update it as well, e.g. "By using pulumi import with -o to generate code and CloudFormation's retention policies...".

Fix this →

2. "append the resource definition" is incorrect — index.md:76

pulumi_import.md:18: "A definition for each resource will be printed to stdout". With -o, the CLI writes (overwrites) the named file; it does not append.

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and write the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

3. Step 3.4 mixes two distinct import workflows — index.md:105–115

Step 3.2 at line 99 says "Run the pulumi import commands" — that's the CLI workflow. The TypeScript emitted by pulumi import does not contain an import: resource option, so the cleanup described at lines 105–107 ("you'll notice an import ID in the resource options ... remove this property") doesn't apply to the CLI flow. That cleanup belongs to the other workflow: hand-written code that uses the import resource option (see content/docs/iac/concepts/resources/options/import.md), then pulumi up, then strip the import option.

Two clean fixes:

• Option A (recommended, smaller): Delete Step 3.4 entirely. The CLI workflow doesn't require it. The protect: true block at lines 109–114 stays — pulumi import sets --protect to true by default (pulumi_import.md:93).
• Option B: Rewrite Step 3.2–3.4 around the import resource-option workflow.

Style items (lower priority, repeated)

• index.md:32 — third intro paragraph still largely restates the second; reads as a TL;DR before ``. Consider trimming.
• index.md:80 — "We use a 'Retain and Adopt' strategy" — first-person plural appears only here; the rest is instructional voice. Consider "Use a...".
• index.md:149 — "While the process is straightforward" — STYLE-GUIDE flags reader-effort qualifiers. Suggest "There are a few things to watch out for:".
• index.md:159 — consider also linking to /docs/iac/adopting-pulumi/import/ in the closing CTA.

Checklist

• Verify PR scope is still limited to blog files — clean
• Re-check --generate-code=index.ts syntax at line 73 — still incorrect
• Re-check "append the resource definition" wording at line 76 — still incorrect
• Re-check Step 3.4 workflow contradiction at lines 105–115 — still present
• Re-check conclusion phrasing at line 157 — still references import --generate-code
• Check style items — unchanged from prior reviews
• Post final review

Summary

The branch is 26464da with a clean three-file diff — that part is solid. But the body of index.md is byte-identical to the previous re-review's content for the three technical issues (lines 73, 76, 105–115, 157). The trigger comment says "actionable content feedback has been addressed," but I'm not seeing any edits to those lines. The --generate-code=index.ts command will not run as written, and Step 3.4 contradicts Step 3.2 — both are blockers for publication. The suggestion blocks above can be applied with one-click commit; Step 3.4 is a single-section deletion. Ping me with @claude once those land.
• Branch: blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy

[sicarul]

@claude please review again. This PR is now marked as draft, the needs-design label has been removed, and the latest pushed head is 76745d1c.

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Docs Review (re-review #4): PR #18966

I re-pulled commit 76745d1c and diff-checked it against the prior 26464da. Good news: two issues from the previous reviews are now fixed. Two technical issues remain.

Status updates

• Draft + needs-design removed — Noted. Since the PR is now in draft and the design-blocking label is off, the placeholder images are no longer an open question for this review.
• PR scope clean — git diff a853d02..HEAD --name-status shows only content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/{feature.png,index.md,meta.png}.

What's resolved in 76745d1c ✅

• Line 73 CLI syntax — FIXED. The command now reads pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 --generate-code --out index.ts. That's valid: --generate-code is the boolean flag (default true, so passing it bare is fine) and --out index.ts is the output path. Matches content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md:83,88. The conclusion phrasing at line 157 ("the import --generate-code feature") is now consistent with the command as shown.
• Line 149 reader-effort qualifier — FIXED. "While the process is straightforward, there are a few things to watch out for:" has been rewritten to "Watch for these migration details before you delete the CloudFormation stack:". Good rewording.

What's still broken ❌

1. "append the resource definition" — index.md:76

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and append the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

Per content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md:18,88, pulumi import prints definitions to stdout by default, and --out is "the path to the file that will contain the generated resource declarations" — i.e., it writes (overwrites), it does not append to an existing file. Suggest:

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and write the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

2. Step 3.4 still mixes two distinct import workflows — index.md:105–115

Step 3.2 (line 99) says "Run the pulumi import commands" — that's the CLI workflow you just demonstrated in Step 2. The TypeScript emitted by pulumi import does not contain an import: resource option, so the cleanup at Step 3.4 ("you'll notice an import ID in the resource options ... remove this property from your code") doesn't apply to the CLI flow.

That cleanup is the other workflow — hand-written code that puts import: in the resource options bag (e.g. { import: "sg-04aeda9a214730248" } per content/docs/iac/concepts/resources/options/import.md:34), then pulumi up, then strip the option.

Two clean fixes:

• Option A (recommended, smaller): Delete Step 3.4's prose at lines 105–107 and keep the protect: true code block at 109–115. The CLI workflow doesn't require the import: cleanup, and pulumi import sets --protect=true by default (pulumi_import.md:93), so the snippet itself is accurate as a "here's what the imported resource looks like in code" example. You'd just rename the section heading to something like "### 4. Verify the imported code" or merge it into Step 3.3.
• Option B: Rewrite Step 3.2–3.4 around the resource-option workflow (hand-write with import:, pulumi up, strip the option). Bigger rewrite.

Apply both fixes →

Style items (lower priority, repeated)

• index.md:32 — third intro paragraph still largely restates the second; reads as TL;DR before ``. Consider trimming.
• index.md:80 — "We use a 'Retain and Adopt' strategy" — first-person plural appears only here; the rest is instructional voice. Consider "Use a...".
• index.md:159 — closing CTA is good; consider also linking to /docs/iac/adopting-pulumi/import/.

Checklist

• Verify PR scope is still limited to blog files — clean
• Re-check --generate-code CLI syntax at line 73 — FIXED ✅
• Re-check "append the resource definition" wording at line 76 — still incorrect
• Re-check Step 3.4 workflow contradiction at lines 105–115 — still present
• Re-check "straightforward" qualifier at line 149 — FIXED ✅
• Note draft status and needs-design label removal
• Re-check style items — unchanged

Summary

Real progress on this round — the line 73 syntax fix and the line 149 reword are both clean. Two technical issues remain that are blockers when the PR comes out of draft: the "append" wording at line 76 and the Step 3.4 workflow mismatch. Both fixes are small (one word, one paragraph deletion). Ping me again with @claude once those land.
• Branch: blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy

[sicarul]

@claude please review the latest pushed changes, including the generated blog feature and meta images.

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Docs Review (re-review #5): PR #18966

Re-pulled commit 48623ed, verified scope, viewed the new images, and re-checked the two remaining technical issues line-by-line.

What's resolved in this push ✅

• PR scope clean. git diff a853d02..HEAD --name-status shows only content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/{feature.png,index.md,meta.png} (ADDED). The branch is a single clean commit on current origin/master.
• Feature image looks great. New feature.png is 1884×1256 (the standard size from the blog-meta-image skill, up from the 942×628 placeholder). Clean Pulumi-brand purple background with AWS and Pulumi marks in dotted concentric circles — on-brand and not a placeholder. 🎉
• Meta image looks great. New meta.png is 1200×628 with the full title "From CloudFormation to Pulumi Without a Rewrite", AWS+Pulumi logos, and the Pulumi wordmark in the bottom-left. Good OG card composition; title is readable at preview size.
• CLI command syntax (index.md:73) — confirmed still correct from prior round. pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 --generate-code --out index.ts validates against content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md:83,88.
• Reader-effort qualifier at line 149 — still resolved. "Watch for these migration details before you delete the CloudFormation stack:" reads well.

What's still broken ❌

These are the same two items from re-review #4. The body of index.md is unchanged between 76745d1c and 48623ed for these lines, so the previous findings still apply.

1. "append the resource definition" — index.md:76

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and append the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md:18,88 (verified in this checkout):

A definition for each resource will be printed to stdout
-o, --out string   The path to the file that will contain the generated resource declarations

pulumi import --out <file> writes (overwrites) the file; it does not append to an existing file. Suggested fix:

Pulumi will query the AWS API, determine the current configuration of the VPC, and write the resource definition to your `index.ts` file.

2. Step 3.4 mixes two distinct import workflows — index.md:105–115

Step 3.2 at line 99 says "Run the pulumi import commands" — that's the CLI workflow you demonstrated in Step 2 (pulumi import ... --generate-code --out index.ts). The TypeScript emitted by pulumi import does not contain an import: resource option.

But Step 3.4 at lines 105–107 says:

After the import is complete, you'll notice an import ID in the resource options. Once the resource is successfully part of your Pulumi state, you should remove this property from your code to prevent Pulumi from attempting to import it again on subsequent updates.

That description applies to the other import workflow: hand-written code that puts import: in the resource options bag (e.g. { import: "sg-04aeda9a214730248" } per content/docs/iac/concepts/resources/options/import.md:34), then pulumi up, then strip the option. Readers who run the CLI from Step 2 won't see an import ID in their generated code and the instruction will confuse them.

Two clean fixes:

• Option A (recommended, smaller): Delete the prose at lines 105–107 and keep the protect: true code block at lines 109–115. Rename the section heading to something like "### 4. Verify the imported code" (the snippet works as a "here's what the imported resource looks like" example — pulumi import sets --protect=true by default per pulumi_import.md:93).
• Option B: Rewrite Step 3.2–3.4 around the resource-option workflow (hand-write with import: option, pulumi up, then strip the option). Larger rewrite.

Apply both fixes →

Style items (lower priority, repeated)

• index.md:32 — third intro paragraph still largely restates the second; reads as TL;DR before ``. Consider trimming.
• index.md:80 — "We use a 'Retain and Adopt' strategy" — first-person plural appears only here; the rest is instructional voice. Consider "Use a...".
• index.md:159 — closing CTA is good; consider also linking to /docs/iac/adopting-pulumi/import/ for the pulumi import reference.

Checklist

• Verify PR scope is still limited to blog files — clean
• Check generated feature.png and meta.png — both look great, properly branded, no longer placeholders
• Re-check "append" wording at line 76 — still incorrect
• Re-check Step 3.4 workflow contradiction at lines 105–115 — still present
• Verify CLI syntax at line 73 — still correct ✅
• Verify "straightforward" qualifier at line 149 — still resolved ✅
• Check style items — unchanged from prior reviews
• Post final review

Summary

The new images are a substantial improvement — the feature card and OG meta card are both on-brand and ready for publication. Two technical issues remain (the same ones from re-review #4): the "append" wording at line 76, and the Step 3.4 workflow mismatch at lines 105–115. Both are small edits — one word and one paragraph deletion. The PR is in draft and needs-design is removed; once those two fixes land, this is ready to mark ready-for-review. Ping me with @claude for another pass.
• Branch: blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy

[sicarul]

@claude please review the latest normal commit on top. Addressed the current pulumi-bot feedback items for this PR.

[sicarul]

@claude please retry the review. The previous review request appears to have failed or stalled due to GitHub rate limits. Please review the latest HEAD and confirm whether the prior feedback is addressed.