I have a staging and production stack managing infrastructur

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I have a staging and production stack managing infrastructure in the same AWS account but I only want a single elastic container registry resource between both stacks I can t simply remove the ECR resource from the staging stack because a bunch of other staging resources reference it I also tried forcing staging to use the same ECR repo name as production but that complained that the resource already existed when I ran `pulumi up` Any guidance here

gorgeous-window-12350 · Answer

Mm actually I realized I can probably just import the prod ecr repo into my staging stack But is it appropriate for a resource to be managed by two different stacks

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

you can t manage a resource by two different stacks no What most people do here is set a config boolean ```pulumi config set enableECR``` Then use an if statement if it s enabled

gorgeous-window-12350 · Answer

< billowy army 68599> Thanks for the reply I was able to import the same resource into both stacks so I think that I can manage the same resource in both stacks but perhaps I shouldn t I know that I can toggle the ECR on in one environment and off in another The issue I m running into is that I need to reference the ECR resource in both stacks since my AWS tasks need to reference images in that one ECR instance

gorgeous-window-12350 · Answer

An alternative path would be to output the ECR id from the production stack and import it into my staging stack Is that possible and would that be a better approach

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

you definitely shouldn t manage the resource in both stacks

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

you have two options really move the ECR definition into its own project and use a stack reference use the if statement method I defined above and if it s set to false use a ` get ` method

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

so ```if true create the resource else ecr get repository ```

gorgeous-window-12350 · Answer

Thank you that solved my issue New to Pulumi and hadn t made use of the get functions yet