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stack references dont work across buckets, you need to store state in the same bucket

I was terribly afraid of that.  Do you offhand know if there are plans to _change_ that? Because we're having a lot of different stacks and projects, sharing "deeper" refs would be nice.

There aren’t any plans to change that I don’t think, I’m not even sure how it would work

Query: what about different stacks from different projects in the same bucket?

yes that’s totally possible, it’s in the stack ref api

Hmmmm. I moved the stack state to `bucket` , but I'm still getting identical errors. Verbosity doesn't seem to help debug the matter either.  I'm not sure how to trace the error beyond the "unknown stack" bit.

```
		stack, err := pulumi.NewStackReference(ctx,
			"<gs://bucket/integration/>",
			&amp;pulumi.StackReferenceArgs{
				Name: pulumi.String("account"),
			},
		)```

what is your stack name? are you storing things in different directories? ie `pulumi login <gs://bucket/integration>` and `pulumi login <gs://bucket/foo>`. if so, that won’t work

so we don't use `login`, we specify the URL in Pulumi.yaml.  And yes, these are different directories.

trying to read output from one project's stack into another project's stack.

you need to use the same URL for all projects, and name your stack something like `<http://integration.dev|integration.dev>`

That ship sailed over a year ago......... sorry. There's no other solution?

project support in self managed backends is due to be shipped soon: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2522#issuecomment-1426496284>

&gt; There’s no other solution?
Nope, if you don’t store state in the same place you won’t be able to use stack references

see here: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3395>

that's.... super frustrating. Anyway. Thanks for the canonical answer.