Hi All, I'm still struggling with using ARM template deployment to create a Web.CustomApi connector and then a Web.Connection that uses the API. The main issue is that the connection never shows up when I run a Pulumi Preview. It does however deploy if I run a Pulumi Up. I have code that creates the API via a deployment along the lines of

var connectorDeployment = new Pulumi.AzureNative.Resources.Deployment( .... )

I then create the connection using an expanded version of the following where I am retrieving the CustomApi object created by the above deployment and using that when creating the connection.

var outputResources = connectorDeployment.Properties.Apply(props => 
{
    Pulumi.AzureNative.Web.CustomApi bamConnector = Pulumi.AzureNative.Web.CustomApi.Get(connectorDeploymentResourceName, props.OutputResources[0].Id);
	var connection = Pulumi.AzureNative.Web.Connection(name, args, new CustomResourceOptions
    {
        DependsOn = bamConnector,
        Parent = bamConnector
    });
    return props;
}

This does deploy correctly and everything works but I would like to get Pulumi Preview to pick up this operation. How can I tweak my code so that Pulumi Preview is picking up the connection correctly? I also have an issue where a Pulumi Destroy is only removing the deployment and not the actual object that was created.

That’s because you create your Connection resource inside an

Apply

which doesn’t run in the original preview (there’s no value to apply yet)

Thanks @tall-librarian-49374, I'll give it a go. Is there a way to get the destroy to remove the created object rather than the deployment?

No, I’m afraid

ok thanks

Yes, I think you are correct that you can’t import a resource if you can’t define it.