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# generale
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:41 PM😄
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white-balloon-205
12/13/2018, 7:44 PM
We don't currently have a way to "get-or-create", though it's somethine we could consider adding.
We generally want to be able to think about a Pulumi program owning the definition of a given resource. Without this, it is hard to reliably know that the desried state you are specifying will really be applied.
A solution to your general problem might be to introduce a third shared stack which creates the Streams and that must always be stood up first, and then the other two stacks can reference it's outputs and use those.
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early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:47 PMmhhh, ok. is there a way to check if a resource already exists directly from pulumi and if it's managed by that specific pulumi app?
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:49 PMthe 'ugly' solution i thought about was checking if the state file of pulumi had the kinesis stream defined. if it had, i can do the new kinesis.aws.... no matter what, as it will potentially just be in the same state. if i have a state file and it does not have that kinesis, i check to see if the kinesis stream exists with the getStream, and if it does, i just skip the new kinesis.aws.
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white-balloon-205
12/13/2018, 7:50 PM
There are ways you could do this (like load up the AWS JS SDK and query), but this sounds like it's trying to go against the grain of Pulumi a fair bit, so I'd be interested to better understand the scenario to see if there's a better way of solving for this with Pulumi.
white-balloon-205
12/13/2018, 7:50 PM
Can you tell me why you want both of these programs to define the desired state of the Kinesis steam?
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early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:51 PMsure
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:51 PMso i have different environments
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:51 PMdev, staging, prod
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:51 PMand they get input data from a kinesis stream that i may potentially want to share between them
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:52 PMso the pulumi app to deploy those is pretty much the same but takes into account the env, and modifies the resources names by appending env
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:53 PMbut i may need the different environments to have the same input data, so i'd like to share that kinesis input stream
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:53 PMif that makes sense
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white-balloon-205
12/13/2018, 7:54 PM
Yep - that makes sense so far.
But then can't the Kinesis Stream to use just be a config input to each stack? And have it actually be created/owned by some other stack that is stood up independently (and has a differen lifetime and relationship to each of these other stacks)?
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early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:56 PMit's an option, but we were trying to keep it all in a single pulumi app for each env
early-family-43281
12/13/2018, 7:56 PMbut i see what you mean