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How can I pull (describe) an existing resource from a cluster? In specific case I'm trying to get a service so I can read its status

in general, i'd like to know what the equiv pattern is in pulumi that terraform `"data" "xxxx"` style resources is? Docs are all about writes

You can use the `.get` method on resources.

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/resources/get/|https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/resources/get/>

For the service resource, it'd be something like:

```k8s.core.v1.Service.get("my-service", "namespace/service-name")```