Hi. I have a question about the difference between

require

and

require_secret

: I need to run a query against a database to determine what needs to be done in the rest of the pulumi script. I want to store the password for the database connection as a secret (

pulumi config set --secret db_password ...

). I notice that if I set a config value with

--secret

and then retrieve it with

require_secret

, I can't use the returned object to connect to the database, I get a type error:

TypeError: <pulumi.output.Output object at 0x10feb3df0> has type Output, but expected one of: bytes, unicode

But if I retrieve the value using just

require

, then it works fine. So I'm a little confused about why I would use

require_secret

instead of

require

. What's the difference? What's going on here?

Hi Solomon, you post just ended half a day of work to try to find a solution.

I think the answer is neither: the documentation seems to be incomplete on this matter.

I posted a question: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-auth0/issues/146