No matter how you like to participate in developer communities, Pulumi wants to meet you there. If you want to meet other Pulumi users to share use-cases and best practices, contribute code or documentation, see us at an event, or just tell a story about something cool you did with Pulumi, you are part of our community.

Pulumi Community

```    const projectName = "project"

    const args: InlineProgramArgs = {
        stackName: "dev",
        projectName: projectName,
        program: pulumiProgram
    };

    const projectSetting: ProjectSettings = {
        name: projectName,
        runtime: "nodejs",
        backend: {
            url: "<s3://pulumi-states>"
        }
    }

    const stackSettings: StackSettings = {
        secretsProvider: "<awskms://alias/pulumi?region=eu-central-1>"
    }

    const opts: LocalWorkspaceOptions = {
        projectSettings:  projectSetting,
        stackSettings: {
            "dev": stackSettings
        },
        secretsProvider: "<awskms://alias/pulumi?region=eu-central-1>"
    }

    // create (or select if one already exists) a stack that uses our inline program
    const stack = await LocalWorkspace.createOrSelectStack(args, opts);```

I had to add `workDir: "."`  to my `mLocalWorkspaceOptions` value to get some stuff working - maybe that will fix your problem:

```const opts: LocalWorkspaceOptions = {
        projectSettings:  projectSetting,
        stackSettings: {
            "dev": stackSettings
        },
        workDir: ".",
        secretsProvider: "<awskms://alias/pulumi?region=eu-central-1>"
    }```
just a guess ....

hi, thx, it solves the problem on my local machine - but in the ci pipeline it happens again because the working directory is empty every time

Maybe refresh config if the stack exists? Just guessing and not quite sure how to do that :wink: