Hi folks! What’s the right way to programmatically get an output value out of a stack from C#, outside the context of Pulumi? I mean, basically what’s the C# equivalent of doing:

pulumi stack output SomeOutput --stack DaRosenberg/OrgFlow/stackName

I’ve tried referencing the

Pulumi

package and using a

StackReference.GetValueAsync()

call, but that only gives me:

System.InvalidOperationException : Trying to acquire Deployment.Instance before 'Run' was called.

What’s the right way? Do I need to use the Automation API for things like this?

Yes, automation API is the way to do this

I suspected as much…

That's because you're passing

null

to setup the workspace not to setup a specific update action. This is so that you can do subsequent update actions without needing to pass your program everytime. If you were to try to execute an inline update action (preview or up) than I suspect you'd see issues.

Ah, got it @bored-oyster-3147 ! Thanks! 😃