Is there a way to force the output of the

pulumi.Config("aws").require("region")

to confrom to type Region. For example:

const region = new pulumi.Config("aws").require('region');

const codepipelinesProvider = new aws.Provider("codepipelinesProvider", {
  profile: CODEPIPELINES_PROFILE_ID,
  region: region,
});

in this case I get a type mismatch error:

Type string is not assignable to Type Input

@busy-lion-51883 you'd need to use an

apply

for this, as the config is retrieved async

it appears to work without using apply. Is the recommendation to use apply in order to get it functional or to avoid some sort of undesirable side effect?

it may not always behave as expected, but if it works that's great. if you see anyweird behaviour, let us know

@billowy-army-68599 https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/config/ doesn't have any examples using

apply

, they're all using plain

require*()

or

get*()

. Is the need for

apply

an omission in that documentation?

@jolly-alligator-19698 the examples show you how to retrieve a configuration item from the config stack. the values as retrieved as

Input<T>

and usually, you'd pass those values to another resource which take an

Input<T>

However, if you need to pass a value to a resource which is a string, you'd need to use an

apply

It looks like the region can be tInputty typein this case, so an apply is not needed, I should have checked before commenting