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Specifically, I set `default` values for some of my configuration variables, but when I deploy a stack my script  complains that those configuration values with defaults are missing.

Do you mean the `template:` section as below?

```name: aws-go-s3-folder
runtime: go
description: A static website hosted on AWS S3
template:
  config:
    aws:region:
      description: The AWS region to deploy into
      default: us-west-2```
That is only used by templates currently (`pulumi new`), it is not project level configuration.  We are considering proving a way to provide declarative project config (see for example <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1052#issuecomment-374255486>).  But today, project level config defaults should be added to the code with something like `config.get("something") || "defaultValue"`.

That said - it looks like the `template` section is missing from the docs at <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/project/> and should be added there.

I expected them to work when I ran `pulumi up` with a new stack