well, I found a hacky workaround: If I do a

network.get_public_ip_address()

on the created resource, I get back the public IP value.

problem is the

get_

function doesn't respect the parent child relation (which is understandable, it is meant to pull in outside resources). So if I try to create the stack from scratch, it errors out with a

ResourceNotFound

exception.

so far I came up with this code:

if vm_data["public_ip"]:
        # exporting the created public IP resource gives back <null>, we need to do a get_, to retrieve the actual value
        # try-except block is a hack to let the code run when creating it from scratch
        # otherwise the code raises a generic Exception while running the preview
        try:
            public_ip2 = network.get_public_ip_address(
                public_ip_address_name=public_ip.name,
                resource_group_name=resource_groups[vm_data["resource_group"]],
            )
            pulumi.export(f"{vm_data['name']} public IP: ", public_ip2.ip_address)
        except Exception as e:
            pass

problem with the above code is the get runs before the actual resource is created, so for the first

pulumi up

it doesn't give back anything. On a subsequent run it correctly returns the public IP.