No matter how you like to participate in developer communities, Pulumi wants to meet you there. If you want to meet other Pulumi users to share use-cases and best practices, contribute code or documentation, see us at an event, or just tell a story about something cool you did with Pulumi, you are part of our community.

Pulumi Community

I see that `Invoke RPC finished: tok=aws:index/getAutoscalingGroups:getAutoscalingGroups;` does contain the autoscaling group names

<@UFCADDCVC> is that from logging the value of `autoscalingGroups`?

no, its from debug and verbose doing a `pulumi preview`

i dont know if its the way i'm running it but `console.log` is suppressed

`console.log(JSON.stringify(autoscalingGroups));` shows up in preview:
```
Diagnostics:
  pulumi:pulumi:Stack (api-docs-api-docs-staging):
    {"__pulumiOutput":true,"isKnown":{}}
```

So what you have is an output of array of autoscaling group names, rather than an array of the names themselves - you can pass them to an input or similar,m

Hard to explain on a phone, if no one else has replied when I get home I’ll post more

<@UB8A66MPS> so maybe I'm just doing it wrong - maybe there's a better pattern for the equivalent of `data` resources in terraform? in many places I need to reference existing resources

wrapping in pulumi.output seemed to work fine in another repo but is not here

There are a few different ways to do this - can you outline what you’re using the values for in your program?

i want to loop through all ASG names found and create autoscaling group attachments for the target groups that get created