I know the answer is going to be use `Apply` but I m having Pulumi Community #golang

I know the answer is going to be "use `Apply`", bu...

salmon-account-74572

02/26/2021, 8:00 PM

I know the answer is going to be "use `Apply`", but I'm having some trouble with the specifics. 🙂 I'm trying to get the IP address of an instance launched on EC2 as a string. So far I've tried

ApplyT

and

ApplyString

variations of this snippet:

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ipAddrList[0] = bastion.PrivateIp.ApplyString(func(ipAddr string) string {
	return string(ipAddr)
})

What am I missing?

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broad-dog-22463

02/26/2021, 8:05 PM

what error are you getting?

salmon-account-74572

02/26/2021, 8:17 PM

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

broad-dog-22463

02/26/2021, 8:18 PM

go home vscode.... https://github.com/pulumi/examples/blob/6b1a84eaadca4090fdcd6fe3debdbacef3e51f7c/azure-nextgen-go-static-website/main.go#L36

broad-dog-22463

02/26/2021, 8:18 PM

we do this a lot in our examples

broad-dog-22463

02/26/2021, 8:18 PM

notice the use of sprintf in there so it's definitely strings

salmon-account-74572

02/26/2021, 8:42 PM

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")

broad-dog-22463

02/26/2021, 9:03 PM

@billowy-army-68599 any thoughts on what I’ve missed here?

billowy-army-68599

02/26/2021, 9:08 PM

what is

ipAddrList[0]

as a type?

billowy-army-68599

02/26/2021, 9:08 PM

can you show me the rest of your code? are you trying to build an array?

lemon-agent-27707

02/26/2021, 9:21 PM

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.

billowy-army-68599

02/26/2021, 9:22 PM

yeah that was my thought too 🙂

salmon-account-74572

02/26/2021, 10:03 PM

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.

salmon-account-74572

02/26/2021, 10:03 PM

Taking a break for family for a bit, but I'll post more code for context later.

salmon-account-74572

02/27/2021, 5:19 AM

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.

lemon-agent-27707

02/27/2021, 3:28 PM

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

salmon-account-74572

02/28/2021, 7:53 PM

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?

lemon-agent-27707

02/28/2021, 9:23 PM

strings.Join

was just the way I chose to do string formatting for example purposes

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salmon-account-74572

03/01/2021, 2:50 PM

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.

lemon-agent-27707

03/01/2021, 3:38 PM

ApplyString

returns another Output which is why you are seeing this behavior. You'll need to do any printing from within an apply.

salmon-account-74572

03/01/2021, 3:46 PM

salmon-account-74572

03/01/2021, 3:55 PM

Something like this, perhaps?

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tmp := bastion.PrivateIp.ApplyT(func(v string) string {
			res := v
			fmt.Fprintln(f, v)
			return res
		})

salmon-account-74572

03/01/2021, 3:59 PM

Well, that didn't work (file is empty).

salmon-account-74572

03/01/2021, 4:02 PM

Maybe I should switch to using the Automation API, since then stack outputs are just "ordinary" data types.

lemon-agent-27707

03/01/2021, 4:09 PM

Take a look at the comment in the last line here: https://gist.github.com/EvanBoyle/827ef2192cc878c7f708a4e612d2f2c0#file-main-go-L26-L28

lemon-agent-27707

03/01/2021, 4:10 PM

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.

salmon-account-74572

03/01/2021, 4:47 PM

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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