If I have some code written in

my-service.ts

, is there a way to conditionally provision those resources based on a value in the config?

You can read the config values with config.get/require and then use an if statement.

@helpful-vegetable-35581 Wait what do you mean by new?

As in creating a new object like "new aws.rds.Instance(name, args)"

Hmm that couples my code to the configuration. I suppose I could wrap everything in a function call. It'd also be cool to disable the mutable ctor. i.e. creating a

new

resources returns an object that holds the data needed to do the provisioning. You can then provision the resource by called a method on the object, perhaps

create

, to provision it.

Why would you want to create the object if you don't want it provisioned?

To remove configuration coupling. It probably makes more sense to just create the object in a function.

Right but then just don't call the function if the config says not to

Precisely 🙂

Right but you don't need a separate create method on the pulumi object for that

Yep - the functional approach is better.