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Ideally I wouldn't have to store the state and could call `pulumi refresh` but that doesn't seem to be able to pull in the existing components for us (from kubernetes)

There is no way to run without a state file (remote, local). That file needs to be kept up to date after each run. Which is best practice to have a remote store for this so it isn't store in git at all.