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little-whale-73288
09/27/2021, 9:05 AMHello, is it kosher to instantiate resource classes inside
.applyAnswering myself: nope: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/inputs-outputs/#apply: "you should not allocate new resources inside of your callbacks either, as it could lead to
pulumi previewIn this case, what is the proper way of instantiating a resource per each of zones returned by https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/aws/getavailabilityzones/ ?
perhaps it's OK to do it inside
.then.applyb
billowy-army-68599
09/27/2021, 3:11 PMwhile we try and recommend not doing this, it's sometimes unavoidable, this seems like one of those cases
if you're okay with the preview being wrong, you can go with this
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little-whale-73288
09/28/2021, 6:02 AMthanks. It's an option, but OTOH we consider reliable previews necessary