[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

• Missing pointer — the post just ends; no line signals there's more to read in the article
• "Use retain-and-adopt, import planning, and generated code to migrate safely" names the full recipe — closes the curiosity gap before the reader clicks

LinkedIn

• "This guide walks through discovery, retain-and-adopt, Pulumi import, generated code, and the gotchas that matter in production" lists the article's entire structure — summarizes rather than teases; the "gotchas" angle is the strongest hook and is buried at the end of a list

Bluesky

• Missing pointer — the post ends without signaling there's more in the article
• "Plan imports, retain resources, generate code, then modernize safely" names the full recipe — closes the curiosity gap

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Updated for commit f9461716a4a67b91cf8edab28d0601aab4c7c8e2 (short: f946171) at 2026-05-15 21:25 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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🤖 @sicarul — pinned review cleared; regenerating from scratch.

[sicarul]

@claude #new-review

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Reviewing a draft; findings may change as you iterate.

Pre-merge Review — Last updated 2026-05-19T16:00:08Z

Tip

Summary: This PR adds a new blog post on migrating CloudFormation stacks to Pulumi using a "retain and adopt" strategy (parallel to the existing migration material under /docs/iac/guides/migration/). The previously-flagged factual error about Custom Resources has been corrected in commit 1407f58. No outstanding blockers remain.

Review confidence:

Dimension	Level	Notes
mechanics	HIGH
facts	HIGH	The one contradicted claim (Custom Resources / CustomResourceEmulator) has been resolved.
code correctness	HIGH	pulumi import syntax and flags match content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md; TypeScript and YAML snippets are well-formed.

Investigation log

• Cross-sibling reads: not run (not in a templated section)
• External claim verification: 14 of 27 claims verified (8 unverifiable, 1 contradicted) · 4 specialists (numerical, cross-reference, capability, framing); 0 cross-specialist corroborations · routed: 0 inline, 23 Pass 1, 0 Pass 2, 4 Pass 3 (verified 1, contradicted 1, unverifiable 2).
• Cited-claim spot-checks: not run (no cited claims)
• Frontmatter sweep: ran on body + meta_desc + social.{bluesky, linkedin, twitter}
• Temporal-trigger sweep: ran (recency words present in diff; spot-check in-review)
• Code execution: not run (no static/programs/ change)
• Code-examples checks: ran (3 specialists: structural, existence, body-code-coverage); 0 findings
• Editorial-balance pass: ran (single-subject, N/A)

🚨 Outstanding	⚠️ Low-confidence	💡 Pre-existing	✅ Resolved
0	5	0	1

🔍 Verification trail

27 claims extracted · 14 verified · 8 unverifiable · 1 contradicted

• L3 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "date: 2026-05-21" → ➖ not-a-claim (evidence: The "date" front-matter field in a blog post is metadata authored by the PR author describing their own content's publication date, not a falsifiable third-party assertion. It is a future-dated publish date (2026-05-21) set by the PR autho…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md (front-matter metadata, line 3))
• L38 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi allows users to use familiar languages like TypeScript, Python, or Go for infrastructure." → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post at L38 states: "Moving to Pulumi allows you to use familiar languages like TypeScript, Python, or Go." This directly matches the claim that Pulumi allows users to use familiar languages like TypeScript, Python, or Go for infr…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L40 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi supports real programming constructs such as loops, functions, and classes to reduce duplication." → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post at L40 explicitly states under "Why migrate from CloudFormation": "Real programming constructs: Use loops, functions, and classes to reduce duplication." This directly matches the claim.; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L41 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi enables catching errors at development time rather than during a deployment through strong typing." → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post explicitly lists "Strong typing" as a migration benefit with the description: "Catch errors at development time rather than during a deployment." This directly matches the claim that Pulumi enables catching errors at developm…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L42 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi supports the use of standard unit and integration testing frameworks." → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verification did not converge within 8 turns)
• L43 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi's engine often provides faster feedback loops than waiting for CloudFormation stack updates." → ✅ verified (framing: strengthened — claim narrows the source's general "several times faster" speed advantage to the specific framing of "faster feedback loops than waiting for Clo…; evidence: Pulumi's official docs state its engine provides "a much tighter development loop, quicker feedback and debugging" and "a tighter development loop that can often be several times faster than working with CloudFormation." This directly supp…; source: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/concepts/vs/cloud-templates/cloudformation/)
• L57 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Identify the core resources that form the foundation of your stack, such as VPCs, subnets, and security groups. These are usually the best candidates for the f…" → ➖ not-a-claim (evidence: The statement is the PR author's own editorial/strategic guidance within the blog post being authored — a general best-practice recommendation about migration phasing, not a falsifiable assertion attributed to a third-party source. No exte…; source: WebSearch ran query "Pulumi CloudFormation import migration strategy VPC subnets security groups first phase"; top results confirm VPCs/subnets/security groups are standard foundational AWS networking resources but no source contradicts or specifically validates this as a Pulumi-prescribed migration phase ordering.)
• L61 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi's import command can generate the corresponding resource code automatically, not just bring a resource into state." → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verification did not converge within 8 turns)
• L63 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "First, create a new Pulumi project:" → ➖ not-a-claim (evidence: The text "First, create a new Pulumi project:" is a procedural instruction in a blog post, not a falsifiable assertion about any third-party system, API, or fact. It is a description of the PR author's own tutorial steps.; source: content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md L63)
• L70-74 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "The pulumi import command supports a --generate-code flag that imports a resource and creates the corresponding TypeScript code automatically." → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verification did not converge within 8 turns)
• L73 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "The pulumi import command syntax for importing a VPC is: pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 --generate-code --out index.ts." → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verification did not converge within 8 turns)
• L76 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "When importing a resource, Pulumi queries the AWS API to determine the current configuration of the resource and writes the resource definition to the specifie…" → ✅ verified (framing: strengthened — claim narrows the general "look up the desired resource in the cloud provider, read its current configuration" to the AWS-specific "queries the…; evidence: The official Pulumi import docs state: "Import uses the selected stack's configured provider to look up the desired resource in the cloud provider, read its current configuration, and add the resource to the stack." The blog post's specifi…; source: repo:content/docs/iac/guides/migration/import/_index.md)
• L84 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Setting DeletionPolicy: Retain in a CloudFormation template for a resource means that if the stack is deleted, the resource will remain active in the AWS acc…" → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post itself states at the relevant section: "Now, if the stack is deleted, the VPC will remain active in your AWS account." This is the standard AWS CloudFormation behavior for DeletionPolicy: Retain, which preserves the resourc…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L95 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "When a CloudFormation stack with DeletionPolicy: Retain set on a resource is deleted, that resource remains active in the AWS account." → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post itself states at ~L95: "Now, if the stack is deleted, the VPC will remain active in your AWS account." This is consistent with the well-documented AWS CloudFormation DeletionPolicy: Retain behavior, which preserves the reso…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L99 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "pulumi preview can be used to verify that Pulumi sees no pending changes after importing resources." → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post at L99 explicitly states: "You can run pulumi preview to verify that Pulumi sees no pending changes." This is consistent with pulumi preview's documented behavior of showing a diff between desired and actual state — a cle…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L103 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "CloudFormation cross-stack references are created using Fn::ImportValue, and dependent stacks consuming a stack's exports via Fn::ImportValue must have tho…" → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post at L103 (Step 3, section 3) states: "Confirm no dependent stacks still consume this stack's exports through Fn::ImportValue. Migrate or replace those cross-stack references before the cutover." This accurately reflects AWS…; source: content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L107 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "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 rem…" → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verification did not converge within 8 turns)
• L107 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "When a CloudFormation stack is deleted, resources with DeletionPolicy: Retain stay alive, while non-retained resources are subject to normal CloudFormation d…" → ✅ verified (evidence: The blog post explicitly states at Step 3, point 4: "Because of the Retain policy, retained resources stay alive, while non-retained resources are still subject to normal CloudFormation deletion behavior." This accurately reflects AWS Cl…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L111 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi supports a protect: true resource option that can be set to prevent accidental deletion." → ✅ verified (evidence: The Pulumi Go SDK source (sdk/go/pulumi/resource.go) includes protect *bool as a field in ResourceState with a getProtect() method, confirming protect is a real resource option. The blog post itself demonstrates its use: `const v…; source: gh api repos/pulumi/pulumi/contents/sdk/go/pulumi/resource.go)
• L153 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "3. Custom Resources: CloudFormation Custom Resources don't have a direct 1:1 mapping in Pulumi. You'll likely need to replace these with Pulumi [Dynamic Re…" → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verification did not converge within 8 turns)
• L155 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "If a CloudFormation stack has drifted from its template, pulumi import will capture the actual current state of the resource rather than the template-defined…" → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verify-claims.py errored on this claim: RuntimeError: HTTP 429: {"type":"error","error":{"type":"rate_limit_error","message":"This request would exceed your organization's rate limit of 2,000,000 input tokens per minute (org: 85d1a054-3697…)
• L156 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Circular dependencies between IAM roles and policies can make importing IAM resources into Pulumi difficult, and it is sometimes easier to recreate IAM resourc…" → ➖ not-a-claim (evidence: The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the PR author's own blog post content: "IAM Roles: Circular dependencies between IAM roles and policies can be tricky. Sometimes it's easier to recreate IAM resources in Pulumi rather than importing th…; source: repo:content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md)
• L157 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "CloudFormation Custom Resources do not have a direct 1:1 mapping in Pulumi and likely need to be replaced with Pulumi Dynamic Resources or specific provider re…" → ❌ contradicted (framing: shifted — the claim asserts no direct 1:1 mapping exists and replacement is required, but Pulumi's CustomResourceEmulator provides a direct emulation path; t…; evidence: The Pulumi Registry documents aws-native.cloudformation.CustomResourceEmulator, which provides a direct emulation path: "The Custom Resource Emulator allows you to use AWS CloudFormation Custom Resources directly in your Pulumi programs.…; source: https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws-native/api-docs/cloudformation/customresourceemulator/)
• L157 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi Dynamic Resources are documented at /docs/iac/concepts/providers/dynamic-providers/." → ✅ verified (evidence: The file content/docs/iac/concepts/providers/dynamic-providers.md exists in the pulumi/docs repository at content/docs/iac/concepts/providers/dynamic-providers.md, confirming the URL path `/docs/iac/concepts/providers/dynamic-providers…; source: gh api repos/pulumi/docs/contents/content/docs/iac/concepts/providers)
• L159 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "If you're ready to start your migration, check out our CloudFormation migration guide fo…" → ✅ verified (evidence: The file content/docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi/from-cloudformation.md exists in the pulumi/docs repo, confirming the linked page at /docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi/from-cloudformation/ is a real documen…; source: gh api repos/pulumi/docs/contents/content/docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi)
• L161 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "The pulumi import command supports a --generate-code flag (invoked as pulumi import --generate-code)." → ✅ verified (evidence: The --generate-code flag is confirmed in the Pulumi CLI source: pulumi/pulumi:pkg/cmd/pulumi/operations/import.go contains &generateCode, "generate-code", true, "Generate resource declaration code for the imported resources", directl…; source: gh search code --owner pulumi --repo pulumi/pulumi "generate-code" --language go → pulumi/pulumi:pkg/cmd/pulumi/operations/import.go)
• L163 in content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md "Pulumi provides a CloudFormation migration guide at /docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi/from-cloudformation/." → 🤷 unverifiable (evidence: verify-claims.py errored on this claim: RuntimeError: HTTP 429: {"type":"error","error":{"type":"rate_limit_error","message":"This request would exceed your organization's rate limit of 2,000,000 input tokens per minute (org: 85d1a054-3697…)

Claim verification reported errors — some verdicts may be incomplete; spot-check the affected claims in-review.

📊 Editorial balance

Single-subject post; balance check N/A.

🚨 Outstanding in this PR

No outstanding findings. This PR is ready to merge once draft status is cleared.

⚠️ Low-confidence

Review each and resolve as appropriate — these don't block the PR.

• [L73] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "The pulumi import command syntax for importing a VPC is: pulumi import aws:ec2/vpc:Vpc my-vpc vpc-0123456789abcdef0 --generate-code --out index.ts." — verdict: unverifiable; evidence: verification did not converge within 8 turns. Author check: the argument order (<type> <name> <id>) and the --generate-code / --out flags match content/docs/iac/cli/commands/pulumi_import.md, but worth a quick local re-run before publish to confirm the example imports cleanly against a real VPC ID. Note that --generate-code defaults to true, so the flag is redundant — consider dropping it from the example for clarity.

• [L155] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "If a CloudFormation stack has drifted from its template, pulumi import will capture the actual current state of the resource rather than the template-defined…" — verdict: unverifiable; evidence: verify-claims.py errored on this claim (rate-limit). Author check: this aligns with content/docs/iac/guides/migration/import/_index.md ("the Pulumi engine compares the properties specified in your program with the actual state of the existing cloud resource"), so the underlying claim looks sound — please confirm the gotcha framing still reads correctly once the verifier reruns.

Style findings

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content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md (3 issues: 1 wordiness, 1 weasel word, 1 difficulty qualifier)

• line 28: [style] wordiness — 'apparent' is too wordy.
• line 57: [style] weasel word — 'usually' is a weasel word!
• line 61: [style] difficulty qualifier — Avoid difficulty qualifier 'just' -- it judges difficulty for the reader (STYLE-GUIDE.md §Inclusive Language).

📋 Triaged verifier findings

I double-checked these and realized they weren't real findings — click to expand

• [L42] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "Pulumi supports the use of standard unit and integration testing frameworks." — verdict: unverifiable. Mis-sourced: Verifier did not converge in 8 turns, but the capability is documented in-repo at content/docs/iac/guides/testing/ (including a dedicated unit.md); this is a well-established Pulumi feature, not a contested claim.
• [L61] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "Pulumi's import command can generate the corresponding resource code automatically, not just bring a resource into state." — verdict: unverifiable. Mis-sourced: Duplicate phrasing of the L161 --generate-code claim, which verified ✅ against the Pulumi CLI source (pkg/cmd/pulumi/operations/import.go); verifier ran out of turns on the duplicate.
• [L70-74] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "The pulumi import command supports a --generate-code flag that imports a resource and creates the corresponding TypeScript code automatically." — verdict: unverifiable. Mis-sourced: Same --generate-code claim as L161, which verified ✅; verifier ran out of turns on the duplicate.
• [L107] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "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 rem…" — verdict: unverifiable. Mis-sourced: The claim text doesn't match the current blog body at L107 or L111 (the post talks about reviewing the generated resource definition and keeping protect: true, not about an import ID in resource options). Appears to be a hallucinated/stale extraction; nothing for the author to fix on the current text.
• [L153] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "3. Custom Resources: CloudFormation Custom Resources don't have a direct 1:1 mapping in Pulumi. You'll likely need to replace these with Pulumi [Dynamic Re…" — verdict: unverifiable. Mis-sourced: Same underlying claim as the L157 ❌ contradicted finding; verifier ran out of turns on the duplicate. This is now resolved along with L157 (see ✅ Resolved).
• [L163] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — "Pulumi provides a CloudFormation migration guide at /docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi/from-cloudformation/." — verdict: unverifiable. Mis-sourced: Same URL claim as L159, which verified ✅ against content/docs/iac/guides/migration/migrating-to-pulumi/from-cloudformation.md; verifier errored (rate-limit) on the duplicate.

💡 Pre-existing issues in touched files (optional)

No pre-existing issues in touched files.

✅ Resolved since last review

• [L157] content/blog/cloudformation-to-pulumi-import-strategy/index.md — Custom Resources claim contradicted by aws-native.cloudformation.CustomResourceEmulator — resolved in 1407f58: rewritten to correctly reference CustomResourceEmulator for Lambda-backed custom resources, with appropriate caveats for SNS-backed resources and the option to use Dynamic Resources instead.

📜 Review history

• 2026-05-19T03:21:58Z — New blog post on CloudFormation→Pulumi migration; one factual contradiction surfaced (Custom Resources / CustomResourceEmulator), two low-confidence verifier non-convergences spot-checked against in-repo evidence, six duplicate/stale extractions triaged. (cf7721e)
• 2026-05-19T16:00:08Z — re-reviewed after fix push (1 new commit, 1407f58): Custom Resources finding resolved; 0 outstanding, 2 low-confidence items remain.

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