I want to use also the python-gitlab within my project. Therefore I also want to access gitlab::token from the secrets. I try to avoid duplication of the config entries. Within my code I tried to:

config = pulumi.Config()
gitlab_password = config.require_secret("gitlab::token")

But this causes the error:

Diagnostics:

pulumi:pulumi:Stack (projects-main):

error: Missing required configuration variable 'projects:gitlab::token'

`please set a value using the command `pulumi config set --secret projectsgitlab:token <value>``

error: an unhandled error occurred: program exited with non-zero exit code: 1

This might be true, because I didn't have projectsgitlab:token, but gitlab::token. How do I get this secret from the configs in my code?

@powerful-lighter-63321 in

gitlab:token

, the first part is the namespace. When you want to read the

token

secret in your code, you create a

Config

object on the correct namespace first:

gitlabConfig = pulumi.Config("gitlab")
gitlab_password = gitlabConfig.require_secret("token")

Thanks for your help. It works, but after trying it, I decided to avoid the whole pulumi-secret part for me. I'll go with the environment-variables. I can use them within the "normal" and in the "pulumi" code. Which is obviously a benefit. I see the advantages with the "apply" stuff, but in case of the "secrets" and "configs" they're definitively a huge burden. So to keep code simple.. I use Environment variables. 😄