Hi, I'm having some trouble getting a random password into a string I can use within the code. It says to use

password.result

but that doesn't seem to ever change from a

pulumi.Output<string>

type.

const password = new random.RandomPassword(`random-password-${stack}`, { length: 16 });

To get into the specifics more, I am trying to place this password output into a config file on an EC2 instance by inserting it into the userData script. Every time I check the new EC2 server I get this error in the logs:

To get the value of an Output<T> as an Output<string> consider either:
1: o.apply(v => `prefix${v}suffix`)
2: pulumi.interpolate `prefix${v}suffix`
See <https://pulumi.io/help/outputs> for more details.
This function may throw in a future version of @pulumi/pulumi./"

In the docs it says

Because outputs are asynchronous, their actual raw values are not immediately available.

which makes sense, but I cannot use

apply()

or any of the other options to get a readable string value on the

password.result

output. What am I missing here? Is there some sort of async/await functionality I can use to wait for it to resolve? Thanks!

@big-notebook-65054 you can’t convert an output to a string. see https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2021/05/09/pulumi-apply for a more in depth review You’ll need to define the userdata inside an

apply

block. If you tell me which language you’re using and share some of your code I can create an example