how to access config from code

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little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

`var bar = new pulumi Config foo require bar `

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Unless foo is the name of the project in which case you would omit the parameter to `new Config `

refined-terabyte-65361 · Answer

its actually this i was trying to generalize ```config aws region us west 2``` so i was trying to create a resource which is region specific so instead of hardcoding i am trying to use the region var

red-match-15116 · Answer

red-match-15116 · Answer

tenwit has the correct pattern there though so following that and replacing `foo` with `aws` and `bar` with `region` gets you what you want

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

The aws provider should grab that config without you needing to worry about it though The `aws region` config value is used automatically

refined-terabyte-65361 · Answer

I tried to add new variable in pulumi dev yaml ```config aws region us west 2 ecr env dev``` when i try to access it throws error ```var env = new pulumi Config ecr require env const ecr = ecr registry $ env alpine ``` expecting ```const ecr = ecr registry dev alpine ``` ``` error 1 error occurred error creating ECR repository InvalidParameterException Invalid parameter at repositoryName failed to satisfy constraint must satisfy regular expression a z0 9 + a z0 9 + a z0 9 + a z0 9 + ```

refined-terabyte-65361 · Answer

oh so this works as expected ````registry $ env alpine```` what is the difference between and `

red-match-15116 · Answer

<https basarat gitbook io typescript future javascript template strings> This is how strings are interpolated in typescript