Can we convert pulumi.IDOutput to string and *string?

you'll need to use reflection and an apply to access the raw value. If you're willing to share some code, we might be able to help

@billowy-army-68599 Golang

Ec2_server, err = ec2.NewInstance(ctx, "fooInstance", &ec2.InstanceArgs{
			Ami:          pulumi.String("ami-005e54dee72cc1d00"),})

Ec2_server.ID() // this gives IDOutput type but I want this as string/*string.

Where are you using that ID? If you're passing it to more Pulumi code, you can pass the output, you don't need the string. If you need the string version for something else, you have to use an ApplyT function, iirc.

If you just need to convert

IDOutput

to

StringOutput

you can use

.ToStringOutput()

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2@v2.23.2/go/pulumi#IDOutput.ToStringOutput

@little-cartoon-10569 @white-balloon-205 can you tell how to convert to string/*string in golang using applyT you are saying. I can’t figure that out new to pulumi as well as to golang.

I am passing it to LookupInstance function which expects *string/string ID.

You will need to call

LookupInstance

from inside the

.ApplyT

callback. Schematically

idoutput.ApplyT(func (id pulumi.ID) { return ec2.LookupInstance(... id ...).Ami })

.