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c
Hello! đź‘‹ Just starting out / testing things, trying to look at existing resources programmatically. Slightly confused on how the getters should work, thanks for your help! Thread ->
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import * as pulumi from "@pulumi/pulumi";
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws";

const attempt1 = async () => {
  let instances = await aws.ec2.getInstances({}, { async: true });
  // Property 'forEach' does not exist on type 'GetInstancesResult'.ts(2339)
  instances.forEach((instance) => {
    console.log(instance.instanceTags);
  });
};

const attempt2 = async () => {
  let instances = pulumi.output(aws.ec2.getInstances({}, { async: true }));
  // Property 'forEach' does not exist on type 'Output<UnwrappedObject<GetInstancesResult>>'.ts(2339)
  instances.forEach((instance) => {
    console.log(instance.instanceTags);
  });
};

const attempt3 = async () => {
  let instances = pulumi.output(aws.ec2.getInstances({}, { async: true }));
  instances.apply((instances) => {
    // Property 'forEach' does not exist on type 'UnwrappedObject<GetInstancesResult>'.ts(2339)
    instances.forEach((instance) => {
      console.log(instance.instanceTags);
    });
  });
};
f
As the API doc you linked states, the function returns a type of 
Promise<GetInstancesResult>
which is not an array you can iterate over. You’ll see that that interface has a bunch of fields on which you can interate.
So after you’ve awaited it, you still have a 
GetInstancesResult
against which you’ll want to use one of its properties like 
ids
or 
instanceTags
to iterate
c
Gotcha, thanks. Is it possible to run this code to query the existing infrastructure created with other tools, without (re-)creating or importing the infrastructure to pulumi? Just trying to run the code gets me a
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(node:28738) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Program run without the Pulumi engine available; re-run using the `pulumi` CLI
and 
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gets me
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I was wondering if there is a low-commitment way to check things out
f
You can use a local file system backend if you don’t want to setup a free Pulumi account (see https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/#backends)
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