Separate question: my deployment requires that I perform an action after something has been deployed (eg. call an API endpoint on a webapp after it's deployed) but that action has no explicit return value. How does that work in terms of using Output? Should I still use Output.Apply for the dependency, but just return a dummy value (like bool / Unit) for my custom action?

you can just return

true

And it's ok that I don't include that Output<bool> in the return result of the caller?

yep it should be

Actually one more question to clarify something: by the time, for example, the

new Web.WebApp()

constructor exits has the resource actually been created? Or does that occur later, and I need to use Output.Apply to ensure my dependency on it is called at the right time?

little more complex than that. when an

Output.Apply

return, it means the Azure API has returned a value for it, which almost always means the resource has been created There are a few edge cases which I can't recall now, but

Output.Apply(value)

is what you need to use

Got it, thanks. How does all that work in a Dry Run scenario?

you might want to wrap any SDK run with an if statement checking if it's a dry run: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/pulumi/runtime/#isDryRun

Got it, thanks!