I have a class extending

pulumi.ComponentResource

, let’s call it

MyComponent

, creating in its

constructor

a

k8s.core.v1.ConfigMap

and a

k8s.helm.v2.Chart

the former getting a direct reference to it in the later

values

args. Both have their

opts

like

{ parent: this }

,

this

obviously referencing

MyComponent

.

MyComponent

is called with

opts

like

{ providers: { kubernetes: k8sProvider /* a working k8s.Provider instance */ } }

In this situation I get this error :

error: Error: Explicit providers may not be used with component resources

Where things get weirder is that if I remove

opts

along with the parent reference from the

ConfigMap

(and only from this one), the error disappear. I tracked down the error in

pulumi.ComponentResource

:

if (opts.provider !== undefined) {
            throw new errors_1.ResourceError("Explicit providers may not be used with component resources", opts.parent);
        }

That does not make any sense for me in this situation, I don’t even set an

opts.provider

anywhere. Is this intended (and if so I could use some help to understand it) or should I open an issue ?

Are you sure you aren't passing the

opts

from the component down into a child somewhere - like

opts: opts

or

opts: {...opts, parent: this}

. I've seen this error when I accidentally did this. I'm hoping we'll be able to clean up some of the error case here as part of https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1802, I'll add a note referencing this specific issue to that.

Yes, I can confirm with certitude only

{ parent: this }

is passed down explicitly to each child of my component.

Which resource is this error reported against for you? (and is there any additional detail you can share in DM?)

I will prepare a summary of everything and will send that to you in DM