Is there a way to mark a resource to only be run once? For example, I want to start an AWS elastic beanstalk app with a sample application right away. From then on, I would like to deploy outside of pulumi. Of course I could add and remove code each time, but I’d be interested in a more automated approach. Maybe using a conditional configuration option?

yes, you could choose only the

sample

stack to have that beanstalk app One way to do that could be to have a larger project with different deployment stacks, and

pulumi.get_stack()

can tell you if you want to run certain things, OR simply have different values in your

yaml

file for each associated stack. When deploying the

sample

stack you would have the beanstalk app, and for

production

it wouldn't include it, but would not tear down `sample`'s app

In the JS runtime, can conditionals prevent code branches from being included in state?

I think the idiomatic approach would be to have a project only for that app, and run it only after the larger outer project.