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Need a pointer (no pun intended) on this issue: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/discussions/8939>
Getting mixed up on string pointer/input/output.

<@U02AT958V50> it’ll be a bit easier to help if you’re able to share some more code snippets of what you’re trying to do.

On my hand, have something like:
```myConfigMap, err := corev1.NewConfigMap(ctx, "my-configmap", &amp;corev1.ConfigMapArgs{```
And then use it like this:

```corev1.EnvFromSourceArray{
		&amp;corev1.EnvFromSourceArgs{
			ConfigMapRef: &amp;corev1.ConfigMapEnvSourceArgs{
				Name: DefaultConfig.Metadata.Name(),
			},
		},
		&amp;corev1.EnvFromSourceArgs{
			ConfigMapRef: &amp;corev1.ConfigMapEnvSourceArgs{
				Name: Config.Metadata.Name(),
			},
		},```

`DefaultConfig` and `Config` are basically the `myConfigMap` (just exported in anoher variable)

Updated github question with code snippets. Looking at what you provided as well, cheers

Added last item to end, issue with

```ResourceNames: pulumi.StringArray{
					cfgMap.Metadata.Name(),  // 👈 THIS cannot use cfgMap.Metadata.Name() (value of type pulumi.StringPtrOutput) as pulumi.StringInput value in array or slice literal: missing method ToStringOutput
				},```


Close! I updated to use config.metatadata.name and all but the last item seem to be working

Your code snippet uses `generatedConfigMapName` but doesn’t set it anywhere

I’m also not quite sure what you mean about letting deployment do it in any order.

I figured the order of dependencies is calculated by pulumi. However, in this case I need to explicitly have a generated output name from the config map so thought I might need to run an Apply to then export the configMap name for usage in the rest of the plan.

I will try what you just said

It should not be necessary to do an Apply, this is a pretty normal use case.

This is one area for Go’s type system is getting in the way.

```	ResourceNames: pulumi.StringArray{
					// CfgMap.Metadata.Name(),.
					cfgMap.Metadata.Name().Elem(),
				},```
This gave no error

Are you on github so I can mention your username in the answer in github discussions?

Happy to help - thought it’d be faster here than GitHub :slightly_smiling_face:

Yeah. I'm kinda zealous on putting in github even if i chat in slack because I believe that the lack of visibility and searching to others makes slack a walled garden compared to the repo. Helpful to do here, but I want to save my problem/answer there so others benefit hopefully. Thank you for the quick help