Can anyone answer if there s a way to find or create a resou

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Can anyone answer if there s a way to find or create a resource using pulumi

stocky-window-81967 · Answer

I d like to try to find an existing `gcp monitoring get notification channel` or create one if it doesn t exist versus just fail on either the get or resource create I m basically iterating over a bunch of resources and attaching a notification channel to them I don t want to loop twice as in first creating whatever notification channels need to exist prior to creating the alerts I d rather just create them as a I need them and look up or create the channel on the second time I need it

stocky-window-81967 · Answer

I can do this with a direct API client but was hoping Pulumi had something which I m doubtful of

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

this isn t really following the model of how pulumi works Pulumi drives towards a desired state so if the resource doesn t exist it will create it You can do a lookup with the direct api and then do an if statement to create the resource

stocky-window-81967 · Answer

that makes sense

stocky-window-81967 · Answer

thanks

stocky-window-81967 · Answer

ahhhh didn t realize I could use Outputs and just skip if I created the notification channel already

green-school-95910 · Answer

You can also adopt resource that already exists by setting the import field in the options It only needs to be done once after that pulumi manages that resource like any other