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b
what error are you getting?
s
I haven't actually run it yet; I'm thinking it doesn't work because VS Code's linting is reporting this: 
cannot use bastion.PrivateIp.ApplyString((func(ipAddr string) string literal)) (value of type pulumi.StringOutput) as string value in assignment
b
we do this a lot in our examples
notice the use of sprintf in there so it's definitely strings
s
It's not just VS Code...I just ran 
pulumi preview
and it reported the same error ("cannot use bastion.PrivateIp.OutputState.ApplyString(func literal) (type pulumi.StringOutput) as type string in assignment")
b
@billowy-army-68599 any thoughts on what I’ve missed here?
b
what is 
ipAddrList[0]
as a type?
can you show me the rest of your code? are you trying to build an array?
l
From the error it sounds like 
ipAddrList
is a 
[]string
and you are trying to assign a 
pulumi.StringOutput
to one of it's elements which would not work. If you share a full code snippet with context I'm sure we can get something working.
b
yeah that was my thought too 🙂
s
You are spot on. I am trying to launch a group of instances and collect their IP addresses in an array that I can iterate over to write the IP addresses out to a file.
Taking a break for family for a bit, but I'll post more code for context later.
Here's a bit more code for context:
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// Launch an EC2 instance to serve as bastion host
		bastion, err := ec2.NewInstance(ctx, "bastion", &ec2.InstanceArgs{
			Ami:                      pulumi.String(amiID.Id),
			InstanceType:             pulumi.String("t2.small"),
			AssociatePublicIpAddress: pulumi.Bool(true),
			KeyName:                  pulumi.String("ssh_key_name"),
			SubnetId:                 pulumi.String(subnets.Ids[0]),
			VpcSecurityGroupIds:      pulumi.StringArray{bastionSecGrp.ID()},
			Tags: pulumi.StringMap{
				"Name": pulumi.String("ans-int-bastion"),
			},
		})
		if err != nil {
			log.Printf("error launching bastion instance: %s", err.Error())
		}

		// Get IP address of bastion as a string
		ipAddrList[0] = bastion.PrivateIp.ApplyString(func(s string) string {
			return fmt.Sprintf("%s", s)
		})
The ultimate goal---and perhaps I'm going about this the wrong way---is to get Pulumi to write out the IP addresses of the instances it launched into a file that could be used with something like Ansible. My thought process was that I'd gather the IP addresses as elements in a string array, then write the array elements to a file.
l
If you don't need the file as a part of your program, you can just write it in an apply: https://gist.github.com/EvanBoyle/827ef2192cc878c7f708a4e612d2f2c0
s
Hmm...OK, I might be able to make that work. I'm assuming that the 
strings.Join
wouldn't be needed if I wanted each element on a separate line?
l
strings.Join
was just the way I chose to do string formatting for example purposes
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s
I moved to a slightly different model; relevant code is here: https://gist.github.com/scottslowe/bc023d3ea10b2cb22f59f7e295657f23 It successfully writes a value to the inventory file, but it isn't the IP address (I'm guessing it's some sort of string representation of the Output). I experimented with an 
ApplyString
function (see line 53 of the gist) but it doesn't seem to work.
l
ApplyString
returns another Output which is why you are seeing this behavior. You'll need to do any printing from within an apply.
s
OK
Something like this, perhaps?
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tmp := bastion.PrivateIp.ApplyT(func(v string) string {
			res := v
			fmt.Fprintln(f, v)
			return res
		})
Well, that didn't work (file is empty).
Maybe I should switch to using the Automation API, since then stack outputs are just "ordinary" data types.
l
Maybe I should switch to using the Automation API,
Using automation api would definitely make it pretty easy to take stack outputs and write them to a file.
s
I did put in a 
ctx.Export
statement (per your gist), but the file was still empty. I think I'm just going to rewrite it using the Automation API.
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