Thoughts and questions re dotnet automation api an...
# dotnetw
worried-city-86458
05/04/2021, 6:26 AMThoughts and questions re dotnet automation api and configuration...
• given I have my own generic host with config, logging, and services (di) etc
• automation api for config can effectively be bypassed with config injected directly into stack instance
• ... is this safe or will there be some gotchas that I might be missing?
• ... I guess still needs to be called if only to record config values used at the time that will then show in the ui?
• provider use of config is currently problematic (https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/5582)
• ... could this be lazy initialized or invert control by calling back to the automation host for config?
• ... but is this not a problem if you always explicitly instantiate a provider and pass args?
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bored-activity-40468
05/05/2021, 9:15 PMI created a ProviderHelper so I can switched between aws accounts with using statements.
https://gist.github.com/dbeattie71/2f5824aa9884b233ad10f098eb3b49a5
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bored-activity-40468
05/05/2021, 9:17 PMAnd some reflection to get access to _transformations. That might not be needed with automation-api now.
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worried-city-86458
05/05/2021, 9:46 PMSo it definitely looks like the provider config can be bypassed / overridden via provider args, which avoids the provider static config issue.
worried-city-86458
05/05/2021, 9:51 PMI'm still wondering if Pulumi config matters... if I inject an
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worried-city-86458
05/05/2021, 9:54 PMPresumably Pulumi up runs without any config if config already manifests in stack resource declarations - by being passed to the ctor and used from there.
worried-city-86458
05/05/2021, 9:56 PMI'll try to put an example repo on GitHub that I can point to rather than waving my hands
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bored-activity-40468
05/06/2021, 12:39 AMYou can DI right into the stack
bored-activity-40468
05/06/2021, 12:41 AMNot using all those config options, trying several things out.
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worried-city-86458
05/06/2021, 2:24 AMYep, I'm doing something similar. I'm just unsure about using Pulumi config when dotnet config sources are so powerful and I want to just use them.
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bored-activity-40468
05/09/2021, 5:27 PMThe helper I created relies on Stack, I'm wondering if there is a way to accomplish the same, with only using a LocalWorkspace and an InlineProgram.
bored-activity-40468
05/09/2021, 7:51 PM@worried-city-86458 This might be an example of the config question you were asking, https://github.com/UbiquitousAS/autodevops/blob/94febfa61fcb4c9156e9198be5149ac16a6b5a8e/Ubiquitous.AutoDevOps/Extensions.cs