As an example, if I deploy a CertificateRequest resource, and I need to watch that a Certificate is created by the k8s operator. As everything is promise-like, I'm not entirely sure how to do that beyond making a dummy resource with CRUD that performs those validations and then having other objects dependsOn that. If that makes sense.

One approach to this is something like https://gist.github.com/lukehoban/fd0355ed5b82386bd89c0ffe2a3c916a.

Oh that is clever. That looks like what I need. So essentially put additional await logic in apply and then depend on its result. Thank you.