I’m trying to use the Kubernetes provider for Pulumi to deploy several resources, and I’m using patterns like

myService.metadata.name

in order to pass information around. I’ve found that this ends up creating dependencies, and in some cases, deadlock situations. In this example, a service will not become “healthy” until there are pods registered to it. Yet, when I’m using something like ArgoRollouts, there’s a pointer back to my service name:

strategy:

    # Blue-green update strategy
    blueGreen:

      # Reference to service that the rollout modifies as the active service.
      # Required.
      activeService: active-service

So, because of this, the pulumi wants to deploy the service first, and rollout second. But the service never becomes healthy, as it’s waiting on the rollout. The workaround is to define a variable and pass the value of that to all places that need the service name. I was also thinking of a way to tell Pulumi to not block other resources from being created while this one becomes healthy? The data is available regardless of health state. For k8s resources, I feel like, a lot of the data is static, and yet it’s treated as dynamic, thus I can’t easily make these references. (I coming from Jsonnet, which makes this quite easy). Has anyone else run into these types of problems? Do you have any patterns or practices that makes the code feel “refactor proof”? What about the case when you don’t know the service name? (maybe it’s being returned as part of higher-level function)

You can tell the Service to not wait on the resources

OH!

does this actually skip the await? I honestly, not sure if I want to skip the await

What it does is basically mark the service as ready even though the underlying pods are not there yet.

I still want to know whether or not the service is actually healthy

Yeah, I’m not 100% sure if this is a use case that’s really solvable, as you have a cyclic dependency but you want the cycle to be ignored, but that doesn’t really work if you want to maintain the dependency chain.