is there any current way to be able to run a command when a resource is created, or just to be able to detect it. like even a horrible hack. i've found the git bits about the upcoming hooks

In a pulumi program, you can write code that references the created resource, and the engine will only run that code once the resource is ready. e.g. https://github.com/pulumi/examples/blob/742def64a7490452df100652a71c306388f2d053/azure-ts-aks-mean/index.ts#L32 parses connection strings of a provisioned database.

@white-balloon-205?

https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1691 is most directly tracking this. We're working on design for that now, and expecting to deliver a solution in the relative near term. You can technically accomplish this with dynamic providers already today, but it is not "simple". See https://github.com/pulumi/examples/pull/191.

fantastic i'll have a look, cheers