I know this has come up a lot, but I'm just not seeing the problem:

const zone = aws.route53.Zone.get("external-dns", ingress.externalDnsHostedZoneId);
      let domain: string = zone.name.apply(z => z.replace(/\.$/, ''));
      let zoneId: string = zone.zoneId.apply(z => z);

leads to:

error TS2322: Type 'Output<string>' is not assignable to type 'string'.

Any tips? How do I cast

Output<string>

to

string

?

Change

string

to

Output<string>

.

How do I cast

Output<string>

to

string

?

You unfortunately do not. An

Output<string>

is a value which may not have a string available yet (it may not until the resource gets created). So you need to use

.apply

on it - and within that callback you pass to apply you will get passed the actual string value (when it's available) and can transform it into some other value. But you then need to pass the resulting

Ouput<somethingelse>

to something else that accepts an

Output

. There is a fair bit of content on this topic at https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#outputs.

let zoneId: string = zone.zoneId.apply(z => z);

What does the code look like that is trying to use

zoneId

? The solution here is to change that code.

here's an example:

private getRolePolicy(zoneId: string) {
    return JSON.stringify({
      Version: "2012-10-17",
      Statement: [
        {
          Effect: "Allow",
          Action: [
            "route53:ChangeResourceRecordSets"
          ],
          Resource: [
            `arn:aws:route53:::hostedzone/${zoneId}`
          ]
        },
        {
          Effect: "Allow",
          Action: [
            "route53:ListHostedZones",
            "route53:ListResourceRecordSets"
          ],
          Resource: [
            "*"
          ]
        }
      ]
    });
  }