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That doesn't look right, you should pretty much never need to call NewContext yourself. Take a look at the golang automation example at https://github.com/pulumi/automation-api-examples/blob/main/go/inline_program/main.go to see how you should be calling into pulumi.

The only i was able to call that

compute.GetVirtualMachine

was through

stack.Up()

. But that ends up deleteing all the resources in a stack , i just want to get

the power state of a vm

.

Pretty much all pulumi resource calls (including getters) need to run within a deployment, this might get changed at some point but for now we need the deployment infrastructure setup to invoke these calls correctly.

ok, thanks!