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you need to also redeploy `app` after updating the kubeconfig from `infra`. Stack reference consumers currently need to be redeployed to propagate changes from their dependencies

Hum… so there is no way I can refresh the state of `app`  before redeploying? I guess I could up &gt; refresh &gt; up

I don't think it's a bad idea to refresh before an up but I don't think it looks at or affects stacks that are referenced, for some reason. I do know for sure though that consuming stacks must be redeployed to propagate changes from referenced stacks. See here: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2309>