There is no relationship between registered outputs, and code that developers can use. Registered outputs is a Pulumi-internal concept, used for finalizing dependencies and update the graph (in the CLI) and resource widgets (Pulumi service).

To make something private in your ComponentResource class, just declare it as private / not public.

There is no relationship between registered outputs, and code that developers can use.

What do you mean? Our stacks can't access a value from a previously deployed stack unless it was exported, and when you export a component it exposes every registered output.

Or does it just attempt to expose every attribute? That seems to be the case.

The docs say we should call

register_output

no matter what at the end of

__init__

. When would it matter whether we do or not?

There's a separate list of stack exports that you get to explicitly choose in your main project file.

E.g. this project exports only two values. The resources it creates probably have over 50 registered outputs between them, but only two are exported.

I have a class that produces many

Output

wrapped objects. Should they all be passed into

register_output

? Does it really matter?