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Is it possible to obtain the value of an externally-managed `Secret` resource, to be used as a `pulumi.Input&lt;&gt;`  in my program?   (without using stack references)

Yep, you can use the `.get` method
<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/kubernetes/core/v1/#Secret-get>

Unrelated: the doc says that `default` namespace would be used by default “per Kubernetes convention”.  Wouldn’t the convention be to use the namespace associated with the ~ambiant~ provider kubecontext?

Hmm, you’re probably right. I assume you mean if the kubeconfig `context` has a different namespace set?

If that’s the actual behavior, it is good and it is a simple doc error.  If `default` is blessed, that would seem like a mistake in my mind.

I’m not sure if we handle that in the provider. Let me check

Nope, it looks like it’s ignoring the current-context namespace

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes/issues/971>