how can I tell pulumi to generate an output from a function that is not in the resource dependency tree? in the example below, when I run pulumi up, deployedVersionCommit is never set. everything else runs fine. another similar function whose return value is used by a resource creation works fine, too. so I'm guessing it has to do with this function not being part of the dependency tree. Is there any way to do what I want?

You could run it as part of an apply statement

sourcesDirectory comes from configuration, with

cfg.require("Sources.Server")

That means you'll be constantly changing that output, is that ok?

I will change it whenever pulumi up is run, that is okay

It means that there might be situations where nothing will be changed resource-wise, but because of the change in output it'll be marked as a change

the console

So you'll get the git commit in your updates in the console:

I think the change is okay: the idea is pulumi up is part of a CD pipeline. whenever it's being run, there will be a new version for certain (because the pipeline is triggered only upon PR merges into master),

You can mark the config value as an output:

const directory = pulumi.output(config.get("sourcedirectory"));
export const gitsha = directory.apply(x => runfunction(x));

trying that now

🎉 good good