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bucket.apply(print)
s
thanks, what if I want to say use string formatting? 
f'{bucket.apply(str)}-bucket'
didn’t work
g
bucket.apply(lambda b: print(f'{b}-bucket'))
Outputs are essentially promises/futures, so any manipulation you need to do them must happen with the 
.apply()
.
The pulumi type system allows you to pass an output as an input without 
.apply()
ing it as long as you don't need to manipulate or transform the value.
s
hmm, 
bucket.apply(print)
doesn’t send anything to diagnostics like a normal 
print()
does - should it?
though, i’m not as concerned with print as just being able to interpolate the value of an output
f
Note that the returned type is still an 
Output[str]
and not a str
but you can then pass that in to other resources
s
so i’ve finally gotten time to revisit this, it’s still not working for me
according to the docs, this should be possible: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#lifting
i’m pretty bewildered by the fact that such a simple thing is not so simple
to be clear, I want to pass 
vpc.cidr_block
to something that is not a Pulumi resource. so if the CIDR block is 
10.0.0.0/16
then I want to pass that string
no incantation of apply, all, or anything else is working
how does this not raise 
IndexError
?
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vpc_network = ip_network(vpc.cidr_block[0][1][500][6])
      File "/Users/scott/.pyenv/versions/3.8.2/lib/python3.8/ipaddress.py", line 83, in ip_network
        raise ValueError('%r does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 network' %
    ValueError: <pulumi.output.Output object at 0x108333af0> does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 network
    error: an unhandled error occurred: Program exited with non-zero exit code: 1
that’s wild
str(vpc.tags.apply(lambda x: f'{x.get("Name")}-{subnet_config.get("name")}_{availability_zone}'))
this does not return a string
I use that to generate a subnet name
and pulumi tries to create this resource:
+ └─ awsec2Subnet <pulumi.output.Output object at 0x10c0c7be0> create
in that case the string would be 
util-private_us-west-1b
f
apply
returns an 
Output
the concept of lifting is to simplify getting an 
Output
value
you work with the actual type, e.g. 
str
within the 
apply
but you’ll never get back a 
str
from the 
apply
itself
assuming 
do_thing
wants to take a 
str
— you should be doing something like 
vpc.cidr_block.apply(lambda cidr: do_thing(cidr))
note that this itself returns an 
Output[T]
where 
T
is the return type of 
do_thing
s
thanks, so i think I get it now but it just isn’t working as I expect/desire. I gave up on that but have another instance where this is not working. I’m passing 
vpc.id.apply(lambda x: x)
to EC2 user data which writes the value to a file, but the object repr is getting written
it’s done through jinja2:
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return template.render(
            kops_name=kops_name,
            kops_state_store=f"s3://{kops_name}",
            vpc_cidr=self.vpc_cidr,
            vpc_id=self.vpc_id.apply(lambda f: f),
            vpc_name=self.vpc_name,
        )
that writes to a file on the host:
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cat > /etc/profile.d/envs.sh <<EOF
export KOPS_NAME="{{ kops_name }}" \
  KOPS_STATE_STORE="{{ kops_state_store }}" \
  VPC_CIDR="{{ vpc_cidr }}" \
  VPC_ID="{{ vpc_id }}" \
  VPC_NAME="{{ vpc_name }}"
EOF
and the file:
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root@ip-10-2-0-17:/etc/profile.d# cat envs.sh
export KOPS_NAME="foo.k8s.local"   KOPS_STATE_STORE="s3://<bucket>"   VPC_CIDR="10.2.0.0/20"   VPC_ID="<pulumi.output.Output object at 0x10f621e80>"   VPC_NAME="foo"
f
The way to think about outputs is that you’ll never get back the underlying type - you’ll always get back an output. Outputs are like promises or futures, you always get another promise/future — which makes sense, b/c you don’t know when the value will be known, so everything is done asynchronously. So in the case of rendering a template, you want the render to happen within your apply.
s
oh, okay, so if I wanted to pass multiple outputs would I want to use 
Output.all([x,y]).apply(fn: template.render(whatever))
i’ll try that
f
Exactly
That will in return give you back an 
Output
which you can then pass to the constructor of a resource
(or stack output)
s
that worked! thank you, finally I think it makes sense
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