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sparse-intern-71089

07/28/2021, 5:12 AM

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little-cartoon-10569

07/28/2021, 5:17 AM

You can query for specific resource types by tag, there's a get static function in each class. Also, there's the AWS SDK that you can use.

little-cartoon-10569

07/28/2021, 5:18 AM

In general, "dynamic" importing like this isn't done. If you need to import something, then you know its ID. You need code to describe each resource, so to do what you're describing, you'd need to dynamically generate the correct code.

little-cartoon-10569

07/28/2021, 5:18 AM

pulumi import

will create snippets but it's up to you to put those in your pulumi program. And what you're describing won't do that.

kind-cpu-30872

07/28/2021, 5:29 AM

I appreciate the input. I know it sounds a little odd to be dynamically importing like this. I agree, static imports of already known resources have been just fine for a couple small projects of mine. Let me explain a little more, if just for your reaction to make sure I'm not way off-base on my approach. A development team is going to have a web app, that web app will be creating dynamodb tables. I need to setup event sourcing on all these tables. To automate, as part of the apps' cicd, i was going to run Pulumi to gather the list of tables, and hook them up to kenisis/kafka. Does that seem reasonable?

kind-cpu-30872

07/28/2021, 5:34 AM

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TABLES = (
    "I don't know all of these tables.",
    "But if I just query my infrastructure and put them into a list.",
    "I'll be fine, the below already works.",
)

for table in TABLES:
    tbl = aws.dynamodb.Table.get(id=table, resource_name=table, )
    stream_destination = aws.dynamodb.KinesisStreamingDestination(f"{table}-stream", stream_arn=stream.arn, table_name=tbl.name)

billowy-army-68599

07/28/2021, 5:47 AM

I think you're going to run into issues here because you're going to have multiple sources of truth, but if you really want to go down this path you can use the AWS SDK to do the query from within your program. However, if you have the ability to change the app, I would highly recommend having the application changed to use Pulumi's automation API to create the tables correctly in the first place

kind-cpu-30872

07/28/2021, 6:01 AM

Thanks! Totally agree, I would normally do what you have recommended, but I'm having to compromise on this ownership detail.

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