---
id: pulumi-snowflake
version: "2.19.0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# pulumi-snowflake — A Pulumi package for creating and managing snowflake cloud resources.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 238.6K/mo

## What it is and what it does

pulumi_snowflake is a Pulumi resource provider that bridges Python infrastructure-as-code workflows with Snowflake cloud resources. It lets you declare Snowflake objects—databases, compute warehouses, users, roles, and other entities—in Python code and deploy them through Pulumi's orchestration engine, treating your Snowflake infrastructure the same way you would any other cloud resource.

The package wraps Snowflake's API and integrates with Pulumi's state management, allowing you to version-control your Snowflake configuration, automate deployments, and manage resources across environments. It supports multiple authentication methods (username/password, OAuth, keypair, browser auth) and requires only that you provide account name, region, and credentials via environment variables or Pulumi configuration.

Use it for:

- Automate Snowflake warehouse and database provisioning as part of a larger infrastructure deployment pipeline.
- Define and manage Snowflake users, roles, and permissions in version-controlled Python code.
- Spin up ephemeral Snowflake resources for testing or development environments and tear them down programmatically.
- Replicate Snowflake configurations across multiple accounts or regions using Pulumi stack management.
- Integrate Snowflake resource creation with other cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) in a single Pulumi program.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

A Pulumi resource provider that lets you define, deploy, and manage Snowflake resources—databases, warehouses, users, roles, and other cloud objects—as code using Python.

Yes, if you are already using Pulumi and need to manage Snowflake resources as code. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and is licensed permissively. It is a straightforward fit for teams adopting infrastructure-as-code practices across Snowflake. Not relevant if you are not using Pulumi or if you manage Snowflake through other tools.

## Install

pip install pulumi-snowflake
uv add pulumi-snowflake
poetry add pulumi-snowflake

## Installing pulumi-snowflake

Before you install: Low install friction; depends on pulumi and semantic versioning utilities (parver, semver, typing-extensions). Actively maintained with a release 14 days ago and no known vulnerabilities.

License in practice: Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing commercial use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install pulumi_snowflake

import pulumi
import pulumi_snowflake as snowflake

warehouse = snowflake.Warehouse('my_warehouse',
    database='my_db',
    schema='public')

Requires Python >=3.9; Snowflake account credentials (account name, region, username, and authentication method) must be configured via environment variables or Pulumi config.

Verify before relying:

- Full breadth of Snowflake resource types supported (databases, warehouses, users, roles, etc.) not enumerated in the fact sheet.
- Whether the provider supports all Snowflake authentication methods equally or has known limitations with specific auth flows.
- Performance characteristics and rate-limiting behavior when managing large numbers of Snowflake resources.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 238.6K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

pulumi snowflake infrastructure as code, snowflake resource provider python, manage snowflake with pulumi, snowflake iac automation, pulumi cloud resource management, snowflake database provisioning, infrastructure as code snowflake, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-provisioning, pulumi-provider

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