Apologies for the re-post but I never got a reply and I'm still interested:

If I do a

pulumi.export

in a file other than

__main__.py

it seems like it gets ignored. I added

<http://pulumi.info|pulumi.info>

statements to ensure that my

pulumi.export

functions are being called and they are. I also logged one of the values I'm exporting via

value.apply(lambda x: <http://pulumi.info|pulumi.info>(x))

and it's a valid value. Why can't I export it from a function in another file?

I think I've seen this before and been confused by it also. I'm not sure why technically, but the call to export does need to happen outside of

apply

. (The call can be in another file, too, just not inside an

apply

.) I'll see if I can find a good explanation for why this is, and get it added to the docs also, but in the meantime, this may help: https://gist.github.com/cnunciato/93dfba1036b7503270eefa498d122299

Ah! I didn't realize mine was happening inside an

apply

, but it is. I have to do a stack reference to get some outputs from another stack and a stack reference is an

Output

so I resolve the stack reference and then

apply

that into a fairly large function that does all the other work. And that gist shows a good solution! Thanks.

You bet! Thanks for calling it out too -- good thing to get into the docs for sure.

Hmmm... The workaround works but has limitations. If you want to export just a single value from the function you called via

apply

it works great. In my case I have several values to export so I had my function return a

Dict[str, Any]

mapping the export name to the value I want exported. So when you call

result = some_output.apply(some_function)

result

is now an

Output[Dict[str, Any]]

which means you can't iterate over it like

for k, v in result.items

to export each item individually. You can export the entire Dict however. But, in my case some of the values in

result

are secrets and some are not. But due to how Pulumi works that means the entire

Dict

is a secret so I can't see my outputs without

pulumi stack output --show-secrets

. Not the end of the world, but the ability to actually export from an

apply

would make this easier.