I've been looking, but I don't know how to do this...
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brief-yacht-92888
07/17/2024, 1:14 PMI've been looking, but I don't know how to do this. How do you pass external values into the pulumi stack. For example, I take in from the user the s3 bucket name, how do I replace `"aws.s3.Bucket("s3-website-bucket")`"? Do I set an env variable and use
aws.s3.Bucket(process.env["BUCKET_NAME"])f
future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:15 PMYou're probably looking for https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/config/
future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:16 PMthus something like
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let config = new pulumi.Config();
let bucketName = config.require("bucketName");
aws.s3.Bucket(bucketName)future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:17 PMor do you mean this is an interactive node console app?
future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:19 PMif yes, you might want to look into the Automation API - here's an example https://github.com/pulumi/automation-api-examples/blob/main/nodejs/inlineProgram-tsnode/index.ts
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brief-yacht-92888
07/17/2024, 1:24 PMInteractive, if I take in the name from a UI and pass it to a workflow which runs the pulumi cli. So it sounds like automation api to solve this.
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future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:25 PMNice. Yeah I'd explore the Automation API 🙂
future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:25 PMb
brief-yacht-92888
07/17/2024, 1:28 PMthanks for the quick response. The index.ts still uses
const siteBucket = new s3.Bucket("s3-website-bucket", {f
future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:34 PMno prob! let me know how it goes! 🙂
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brief-yacht-92888
07/17/2024, 1:47 PMWith `import { InlineProgramArgs, LocalWorkspace } from "@pulumi/pulumi/automation`"; it looks like you can treat it like a normal console app where you process command line args
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const process = require('process');
const args = process.argv.slice(2);
let destroy = false;
if (args.length > 0 && args[0]) {
destroy = args[0] === "destroy";
}f
future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:54 PMyep! it's pretty awesome
future-hairdresser-70637
07/17/2024, 1:54 PMgreat for making self-contained self-service apps for non-devs to use (e.g. QA, Sales, standing up new SaaS customer environments, etc)