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Maybe <@UCWG26BH7> can jump in here as I know he’s used the yaml_to_directory function

hey <@U01BD8WD2LR>, great to see you here!
the intent of the `renderYamlToDirectory` is to allow you to do your deployments out of band using one of the gitops methods. i haven't had time to create a demo of this yet, but generally I'd expect this to look like this
- render yaml
- use the github provider to push to a git repo
- register the application in a gitops controller like argocd or flux
i'm happy to jump on a call on Monday and chat through this if you liek

it works fine for that use case, I’ve got that working.

I was looking for a way of being able to generate the files _and_ deploy. Either in one run or via a setting of flag. I didn’t find a pattern that allowed me to do that.

no I don't think that exists, but i think it's a valid use case. would you mind adding an issue to pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes and we can have a look at it?

Done <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes/issues/1327>