title: Using the Pulumi Automation API without the Pulumi Service
body: <p>I am trying to build a CLI utilizing the Pulumi Automation API and would like to store the required Pulumi state in a GCP Storage Bucket (using the Pulumi CLI I can do this using <code>pulumi login gs://some-bucket</code>).</p>
  <p>In the <a href="https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/automation-api/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">documentation</a> I could not find information about this, the <a href="https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/automation-api/getting-started-automation-api/#obtain-a-pulumi-access-token" rel="nofollow noreferrer">only login-related topic mentioned</a> is the use of a <em>Pulumi Access Token</em> used to talk to the Pulumi Service - which I'm trying to avoid.</p>
  <p>Does the option to use the Automation API without using the Pulumi Service even exist?</p>