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# automation-api
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curved-pharmacist-41509
08/27/2021, 7:30 AMIs there a way to find out if the
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bored-oyster-3147
09/02/2021, 2:11 AMIdk if you’ve figured this out already - but no there is not. There is however a way to check if the current run is a preview within your Pulumi program using the IsDryRun boolean
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curved-pharmacist-41509
09/02/2021, 2:17 AMI did not, the problem is the automation API skips preview and my resource uses isDryRun
I basically want to use dryRun if preview ran, but if preview was skipped I need it to run in the main process
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bored-oyster-3147
09/02/2021, 4:05 AMI’m confused. You’re saying your Pulumi program relies on a preview being executed first? That sounds like a larger problem
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curved-pharmacist-41509
09/02/2021, 4:07 AMI have a
BuildStepBut not have to rebuild during up
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bored-oyster-3147
09/02/2021, 4:08 AMThere’s nothing preventing you from running a preview first using Automation API. It just doesn’t do it as part of an Up
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curved-pharmacist-41509
09/02/2021, 4:08 AMTotally, that is our work around, but in general was thinking it could be good to skip that as it saves time
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bored-oyster-3147
09/02/2021, 4:09 AMSo you would like to fail prematurely during preview, but you would also like to skip preview to save time?
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curved-pharmacist-41509
09/02/2021, 4:09 AMIf you preview, then yes, would like it to fail early there
But if you have chosen to skip, then do it part of the up
Will likely just move it so it only builds during
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bored-oyster-3147
09/02/2021, 4:11 AMOh I see. You were using IsDryRun to take action that was only occurring during a preview. Yes I would call that a problem. You should use IsDryRun == true only to decide to not take action, not to decide that you should take action
Since previews and ups are independent actions, up can have no knowledge of whether or not a preview was executed first, they are 2 separate invocations. You could do something really weird with automation api like pass in your stack history when using an inline program.. but like I said, that would be really weird
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curved-pharmacist-41509
09/02/2021, 4:18 AMYeah fair enough, that was the direction I was going to take. Just build during up, not preview
Safer all around