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Not really a Go guy, so I don’t know if it is Go or Pulumi giving me issues, but I find the Output stuff really confusing. Ideally how are we supposed to use these values? Wrap the entire stack inside an `ApplyT()`  function for every time we need a value?

Do you have a specific example of a problem? You don't need to wrap everything in ApplyT unless you neee to cast values 

So, basically I have an Azure `resources.ResourceGroup`  created, and a bit later I do a http request to Azure (to get the content of a Secret). At this point, I need the created resource groups name, as a `string`, but I only have it as an `StringOutput` . I understand there is some async stuff going on here, and no guarantees about when it is available, but I really need that name.

<@U03K4SWU150> if you need anything that’s a String Output as a string, you’ll need to resolve the value from the API inside an Apply, yes. That’s part of the Pulumi programming model.

However, I’m sorta curious about this:

&gt; bit later I do a http request to Azure (to get the content of a Secret)
Why are you needed to do this? Are you creating the secret with Pulumi, or does it already exist?

My service-principal does not have access to AAD so we need to create app secrets locally (running a separate stack) and store these in KeyVault. Then the service-principal needs to get the actual secret value to push this to a k8s cluster as a secret. Getting the value is only possible using a http request as far as I can tell.

you should be able to retrieve the secret value with this <https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/azure/api-docs/keyvault/getsecret/>

Weird, I was not able to get Value working and read somewhere that it did not send the actual value? But I’ll try this tomorrow! 