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```pulumi stack output apiHostName ```
returns the value I need

apiHostName is an output (kind of like a javascript promise). To access and print the raw value, you'll need to use .Apply. Check out the programming model docs here: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#apply>

Thanks for the reply! I think my problem is, I do not inject the output to create a new resource (passing it as an argument) but use it to replace a string in a file.
That's why I want to use the raw output value.

long story short: access putput values out of pulumi's context

If you are trying to use a stack reference outside of the context of a pulumi program, you can use GetValueAsync, which returns a task: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/42d1a606a47ee66c478954fc505690ab1a2ad085/sdk/dotnet/Pulumi/Resources/StackReference.cs#L92>

Note that this function will throw if you try to use it on a secret value.

Thanks again for your patience. This was exactly what I was looking for :slightly_smiling_face: