No matter how you like to participate in developer communities, Pulumi wants to meet you there. If you want to meet other Pulumi users to share use-cases and best practices, contribute code or documentation, see us at an event, or just tell a story about something cool you did with Pulumi, you are part of our community.

Pulumi Community

Is there any pre-step in pulumi preview and up that interprets and includes the external files, renders the complete yaml and then runs the preview or up.

Does something like that happen with the passing down of variable references generally before preview and up?