No matter how you like to participate in developer communities, Pulumi wants to meet you there. If you want to meet other Pulumi users to share use-cases and best practices, contribute code or documentation, see us at an event, or just tell a story about something cool you did with Pulumi, you are part of our community.

Pulumi Community

I got a response from Pulumi support in email on this one. Apparently this is an open issue tracked <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes/issues/1649|here>.

the workaround is to call pulumi up twice, the second time with pulumi up --refresh (once the IP address has been provisioned)