The solution is pretty simple: Instead of using the

@pulumi/azure

npm package, make sure you're using the

@pulumi/azure_native

package. So a simple change to the code.

// Instead of something like this
import * as azure from '@pulumi/azure';

const registry = azure.containerservice.getRegistry({
  name: "myregistryname",
  resourceGroupName: "myresourcegroupname",
});

//====================================================

// Use something like THIS instead (Notice: different package)
import * as containerregistry from '@pulumi/azure-native/containerregistry';

const registry = containerregistry.getRegistry({
    registryName: "myregistryname",
    resourceGroupName "myresourcegroupname"
});

Can't explain the underlying issue, but this is a solution that worked for me 👍

For various reasons we've found some things that the azure_native package doesn't support as well as the azure package, and vice versa, so we're currently using a mixture of the two.

It's Terraform's fault that you need to skip provider registration if you don't have the sufficient permissions. I think it tries to register the providers for anything you're trying to use, even if they're already registered. I had the same issue when using Terraform directly, and the

azure

provider uses Terraform under the covers.

Either way thanks for the heads up, the config tip is very useful