can anyone help why this isnt working:

var bucket_name = <pulumi.Output<string>>s3.getOutput(`bucket_backup`);
var instance = new aws.ec2.Instance('instance', {
   ...
     userData: `
    #! /bin/bash
    # create template for deployment
    cat > vpnbackup.sed <<SED
    s|--BUCKET-NAME--|${bucket_name.apply(v=>v)}|
    ...

"Calling [toString] on an [Output<T>] is not supported.\n\nTo get the value of an Output<T> as an Output<string> consider either\n1 o.apply(v =>

prefix${v}suffix

)\n2: pulumi.interpolate `prefix${v}suffix`\n\nSee https://pulumi.io/help/outputs for more details."

Instead of

.apply

there, do

pulumi.interpolate`…`

it wont let me do pulumi.interpolate in the middle of the userData string

Not in the middle of it, you do it around it.

ah, ok let me test

No problem

i dont understand why this doesn't work as written, seems much more intuitive that way

The thing is the value.

.apply

will return an

Output

, but then the whole value of

userData

is not a

Output<>

type. By interpolating the entire thing, you tell Pulumi to parse the entire value, then return it as an

Output

yes, outputs/strings is the biggest area of issue I have even after > 12 months of using pulumi! i feel like each situation is a bit different

Yep, always the most difficult part for me too.