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is there any reason you can't just load the file from your code?

npm install dotenv
import * as dotenv from 'dotenv';
dotenv.config();

etc?

That totally worked. Thank you. I guess I was hoping that the

pulumi cli

would do that itself.

the pulumi CLI is just interpreting the code and passing it to the the language interpreter, so anything you put i the code is being handled by the CLI 🙂