hi guys, still in the "getting started" phase of Pulumi. With output variables, what are my optins to push them into other programs? I could write c# code in the Pulumi program and push that into octopus as a variable, or are there are any other methods? In my case, I want to use the property of something I provision as a variable fgor an octopus deployment.

You can use the pulumi cli to write out stack outputs as a json blob, e.g:

$ pulumi stack output --json --stack dev
{
  "bucketName": "my-bucket-026fb45",
  "codeId": "arn:aws:codebuild:us-west-1:616138583583:project/project-ba84a1b"
}

hmm I ran that command but it says stack dev cant be found? but i have a dev stack.

What does

pulumi stack ls

show?

I fixed this by running pulumi stack select dev -c, so now the command doesn't error out.

Yeh it might not of been able to auto fill the project name depending on what your directory was when you ran

stack output

This raises a few Questions. When I am running pulumi commands, I notice a lot of them don't speicfy a project name. So presumably should be run in the directory of the project?

They don't have to be run from the project directory, but if you run them from elsewhere you need to tell it which project you mean. If you run it from the project directory the cli can auto-fill the project name based on the Pulumi.yaml it finds.

ah gotcha! That's helpful on both of my questions. On another note, I deployed my first pulumi program and was a breeze.