With automation API how can I set a config element that has a path?:

pulumi config set --path '["parent.name"].["nested.name"]' value will set the value of parent.name to a map nested.name: value.

seems to be the same question as above, see here: https://pulumi-community.slack.com/archives/C019YSXN04B/p1631791361047600?thread_ts=1631495280.039000&cid=C019YSXN04B

I'm still unsure how to set structured configuration. I'm using Python and I've tried a few different techniques but all I get is:

TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not dict

would you mind opening an issue for that?

I don't think this is an issue - the Config object returns a string In this case it's a JSON string which needs to be converted to a dictionary, which is what I did:

mydict = {'project1': 'vpc','project2': 'rds'}
infra_projects = json.dumps(mydict)
....
infra_projects = config.require('infra_projects')
infra_projects_dict = json.loads(infra_projects)
...
for k,v in infra_projects_dict.items():
      create_codebuild_project(k, codepipeline_bucket, v)

ahhh got it, it's all good now?

Yep

yup yup you’ve got that all right @crooked-pillow-11944