that is one way I use it

Ok, that looks different from what I do - thank you for the inspiration. I will try that.

self.vpc.id

is the id attribute of a

pulumi_aws.ec2.Vpc

jup 😉

most of question here is hot to deal with

output

. I'm glad I'm not alone 🤞

@sparse-state-34229 So I finally got this working, with the use of two lambda functions. Thank you for your help. However, I think it is a really hackish solution.

If someone form Pulumi is reading this: I think this area needs improvement .... it should be simpler to get the value of an Output object.

That is more of a paradigm that is less common in python. The output API feels completely natural in js/ts In Python it works the same since Python is also a functional language, the difference being that functional programming is not common in Python

Good point - its still not really user friendly if its not common. I was trying to suggest to make it more userfriendly 🙂

Yeah I get it. It could be more pythonic if they used descriptors and some magics of the language to require less functional code

"Pythonic" ... is the word that i missed 😉

The output wrapper could proxy all the operations to a functional style internally, that would allow them to keep the architecture but allow a more intuitive interface for python devs

Although python has some reversed logic that might become a problem for such proxies,

str.join

for example is a bit beyond reach as it's a method of the delimiter not the values (which would be the outputs)

I ended up using stack export, parsing the json with python ... took me 30 Minutes 😕

We have some work on the roadmap to improve this experience. It will allow you to execute pulumi like any other python program (an embed it). Programmatically interacting with stack outputs from a pulumi up should be possible in the new model. Please add any additional detail about your use case: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3901

nice to hear

TIL that I can't even assign the output to variable 😞

env_domain = top_domain.apply(lambda c: str(f"{functions.get_project_env(pulumi.get_stack())}.{c}"))

I need to copy this

top_domain.apply()

function to all across my code and if I have huge project this can be be big pain 😞

yep

lol

anywhere you need the value of that has to be wrapped in an apply

thanks for confirming this 😞

it would be nice to see a “outputs best practices” document. with all the recent chatter about this i’m guessing this is (hopefully!) on their radar

Hello. What would be the syntax for setting up a new instance in an existing OpenStack project, with an existing network? Wtih header like

import pulumi
import pulumi_openstack as openstack

https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/openstack/compute/instance/ gives me something like

instance = openstack.compute.instance("some_name", flavor_name="1C-2G", image_name="some image", networks=[network_id_goes_here])

and I'm having issues with

network_id_goes_here

. First I tried according to https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/openstack/networking/network/

our_int_net = "openstack.networking.Network("Our Project Internal Network")

but then

pulumi preview

wanted to create such network. I tried the other syntax, guessing somewhat

openstack.networking.get('our_int_net', 'uuid_from_openstack_interface')

but that threw

AttributeError: module 'pulumi_openstack.networking' has no attribute 'get'

at me.

think of the get call as a class method rather than an instance method

goes to read up on that

you probably just want to directly call

openstack.networking.Network.get()

or something

Mhmm, that indeed works syntax-wise, though I'm not sure yet how to use it. Attempts like

my_net = openstack.networking.Network.get('my_net_name', 'uuid_from_openstack')

and then

instance = openstack.compute.Instance("name", networks=[my_net])

(shortened) complains about

Instance resource 'name' has a problem: network.0: expected object, got string

Same with using it directly like

instance = openstack.compute.Instance("name", networks=[openstack.networking.Network.get('my_net_name', 'uuid_from_openstack')])

i think you need the id generated by pulumi