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Greetings, I've created a project yaml that contains a template for configuration defaults. However when I run `pulumi stack init` it doesn't use the defaults. I would have hoped that it would ask me about each config in the template and hitting enter uses the default. How does one configure a new stack interactively?

Seems like this template section of the Pulumi.yaml is just for pulumi new, but creates a new project as well.

There's a --generate-only option, but it skips the stack  not the project :disappointed:

Do you have a link to the docs on the "template for configuration defaults"? Do you mean the `config:` section of Pulumi.yaml?

```name: base
runtime: nodejs
description: The infrastructure base, includes DB, Service Account, and certificate configuration.
template:
  description: Environment stack for utilize the base infra project.
  config:
    gcp:project:
      description: The GCP Project for this stack.
      default: prime-dev-374422
    region:
      description: The GCP region for which to deploy, this get's inherited by stacks further down the tree.
      default: us-east4
      secret: false```

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/project-file/>

Yea that doc does imply that `new` is the only way to go, and `new` isn't really for stacks. Confusing. I think the docs need more examples.

Still, you should be able to get `pulumi new` to create a stack in the current project. Have you used the `--stack` option?

Pulumi new always clobbers the existing directory. And --stack just specifies the name for the stack instead of being prompted.

I ended up just creating a dummy stack that has some default config set then using `pulumi stack init --copy-config-from`

Not the most elegant solution, but it works.

Good that it works. You should raise an issue about the `template:` project option. It sounds like it needs better docs (like not saying it works with `pulumi new`), and it needs to work with `stack init`.