Hey We need a way to distinguish between different `pulumi u

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Hey We need a way to distinguish between different `pulumi up` failures conflict pending resources etc Other than running grep on output is there any other way f e different exit codes to different errors

white-balloon-205 · Answer

Currently we don t have differentiated exit codes Can you give more details on the errors you are trying to distinguish between Would love to understand whether they are something we could ever imagine differentiating based on exit code or whether they will better be solved by including error information in ` json` output or similar

incalculable-diamond-5088 · Answer

That s super useful We d like to have this for potential automatic recovery during deployments and or taking other action notifying depending on the error

best-waiter-16927 · Answer

For example we would like to have a self healing automation in our deployment flow in case we failed with a pending resources failure fix stack and continue with deployment In general i think it s a good practice and a well adopted one to have different exit codes to different errors in any CLI tool

best-waiter-16927 · Answer

Another example in case of a conflict error update already in progress we might want to add a sleep to the process rather than fail the whole deployment Regarding your suggestion adding error information to json output is not that different than grep on stdout stderr and might be more suitable to API calls but not to the pulumi CLI tool

white-balloon-205 · Answer

Great Those two examples are definitely things we could distinguish as unique exit codes Would you mind opening an issue to suggest this I actually thought there was one already we ve definitely talked about this before but couldn t find it in a quick search

best-waiter-16927 · Answer

Thanks < white balloon 205> for your help Opened an issue for this purpose