maybe this is worth a separate question: how do I make a pulumi resource depend on a (Azure native) `WebApp`not just having been provisioned, but having started?

You’d have to write custom code if you need that. As soon as Azure reports the resource as success, it’s provisioned for Pulumi and we don’t know anything about “started”.

ok

Wouldn't the output

availability_state

provide something?

Whatever the output value is, it would resolve at the time when provisioning is done and won’t change until the next refresh or update operation.

Valid point, but was wondering if one could use

getWebApp

and hence the

availability_state

and then chain the dependency

that is indeed an interesting idea, @high-leather-15669, I will try that and give feedback if it works. will take a day, though, probably.