If I require

cloud-aws:externalVpcId

in my code using `Config`:

let config = new pulumi.Config();

config.require("cloud-aws:externalVpcId");

and run

pulumi preview

, I get a message saying

Missing required configuration variable 'services-infra:cloud-aws:externalVpcId'

. Why is the configuration prefixed with my project's name when I already specified a namespace?

You have to specify the namespace as an argument to

pulumi.Config

. I’m actually surprised this doesn’t produce an error pointing you in that direction - we should make sure it does.

Oh I see - that works. It may be useful to include namespace in the docs for the

name

parameter passed to config.