Greetings All. I'm trying to deploy a Pulumi upgrade and the build keeps complaining about the alias that we add on one of our certificates (

aws:acm/certificate:Certificate

). Specifically, we're getting the error:

error: Error: No valid 'type' passed in for alias.
    at /home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/resource.ts:516:19
    at /home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/output.ts:383:31
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/pulumi/output.js:21:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/pulumi/output.js:17:12)
    at applyHelperAsync (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/pulumi/output.js:236:12)
    at /home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/output.ts:302:65
    at dynatraceRegularInvoke (/opt/dynatrace/oneagent/agent/bin/1.259.304.20230210-081346/any/nodejs/nodejsagent.js:3093:20)
    at Object.a.safeInvoke (/opt/dynatrace/oneagent/agent/bin/1.259.304.20230210-081346/any/nodejs/nodejsagent.js:3168:41)

This error is down in the

resource.ts

file here: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/24f0ae32f7c02bf1906a6081cab81217872c7d38/sdk/nodejs/resource.ts#L516 We created our own

CertificateManager

class, which has a

getCert(

) method for creating the necessary certs for our web properties. One of those certs (support) needs an Alias added to it, and our code in the

getCert()

method handles that. Here's the code:

public getCert(
    name: string,
    zone: aws.route53.Zone,
    domainName?: string,
  ): aws.acm.CertificateValidation {
    let certAlias: CustomResourceOptions = {};
	//Add required alias for the support cert.
    if (name === "support") {
      certAlias = {
        aliases: [
          {
            name: this.config.getResourceName("supportability-cert"),
            type: "aws:acm/certificate:Certificate",
          },
        ],
      };
    }
    const cert = new aws.acm.Certificate(
      this.config.getResourceName(`${name}-cert`),
      {
        domainName: domainName ?? zone.name,
        tags: this.config.getTags(),
        validationMethod: "DNS",
      },
      certAlias,
    );

    const validationRecords = cert.domainValidationOptions.apply(
      (domainValidationOptions) => {
        return domainValidationOptions.map((domainValidationOption) => {
          return new aws.route53.Record(
            `validation-record-${domainValidationOption.domainName}`,
            {
              allowOverwrite: true,
              name: domainValidationOption.resourceRecordName,
              records: [domainValidationOption.resourceRecordValue],
              ttl: ONE_HOUR,
              type: domainValidationOption.resourceRecordType,
              zoneId: zone.zoneId,
            },
          );
        });
      },
    );

    let certValidationAlias: CustomResourceOptions = {};
	//Add required alias for the support cert.
    if (name === "support") {
      certValidationAlias = {
        aliases: [
          {
            name: this.config.getResourceName("certificate-validation"),
            type: "aws:acm/certificateValidation:CertificateValidation",
          },
        ],
      };
    }
    return new aws.acm.CertificateValidation(
      this.config.getResourceName(`${name}-certificate-validation`),
      {
        certificateArn: cert.arn,
        validationRecordFqdns: validationRecords.apply((records) =>
          records.map((record) => record.fqdn),
        ),
      },
      certValidationAlias,
    );
  }

Based on these select lines from the build output (running a Pulumi Preview), the cert handling is working for everything but the

support

cert that is supposed to get the alias.

pulumi:pulumi:Stack pulumi-artemis-infrastructure running error: Error: No valid 'type' passed in for alias.
aws:acm:Certificate artemis-dev-artemis-dev-chat-proxy-cert  [diff: ~provider]
aws:acm:Certificate artemis-dev-search-cert  [diff: ~provider]
aws:acm:CertificateValidation artemis-dev-search-certificate-validation  [diff: ~provider]

So, the non-support cases, where we include an empty object for the

CustomResourceParameters

for the

new Certificate

, it works. When we add the alias and type for the support cert, it fails. In

resources.ts

on line 506, the

collapseAliasToUrn

function should be taking the explicit type that we're providing in favor of the passed

defaultType

, so how that type becomes

undefined

and triggers the error on line 516, I haven't a clue. This code had been working, but started causing problems when we updated Pulumi. Here are the version changes: @pulumi/aws from 5.10.0 to 5.30.0 @pulumi/awsx from 0.40.0 to 1.0.2 @pulumi/docker from 3.2.0 to 3.6.1 @pulumi/kubernetes from 3.19.4 to 3.24.1 @pulumi/pulumi from 3.35.3 to 3.55.0 Could this be a state problem? Do we need to sync from the deployed state before we run another build? I confess that I'm at a loss.

Interesting idea, @clever-application-67149 - worth trying Pulumi 3.42.0 then 3.43.0, since latter is release where structured aliases were added: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/releases/tag/v3.43.0 (only a Python related fix in 3.43.1)

@salmon-gold-74709, I had been downgrading Pulumi but had only gotten to 3.49.0. I downgraded to 3.42.0 and the

No valid 'type' passed in for alias

error is gone, but now I have a serialization error on the same `aws:acm/certificate:Certificate`:

error: Error: failed to register new resource artemis-dev-support-cert [aws:acm/certificate:Certificate]: 13 INTERNAL: Request message serialization failure: Assertion failed: Expected string but got %s: %s.
        at Object.registerResource (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/aws/node_modules/@pulumi/runtime/resource.ts:339:27)
        at new Resource (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/aws/node_modules/@pulumi/resource.ts:398:13)
        at new CustomResource (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/aws/node_modules/@pulumi/resource.ts:782:9)
        at new Certificate (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/node_modules/@pulumi/acm/certificate.ts:334:9)
        at CertificateManager.getCert (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/infrastructure/infrastructure/artemis/src/aws/certificate.ts:36:18)
        at new SupportCloudFront (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/infrastructure/infrastructure/artemis/src/aws/cloudfront/support.ts:64:44)
        at Injector.instantiateClass (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/infrastructure/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:330:19)
        at callback (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/infrastructure/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:48:41)
        at Injector.resolveConstructorParams (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/infrastructure/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:122:24)
        at Injector.loadInstance (/home/labuser/.cache/bazel/_bazel_labuser/34360f705a4b3bbdc2679b46775386d6/execroot/artemis/bazel-out/k8-fastbuild/bin/infrastructure/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:52:9)

Now what? Do I need to downgrade

@pulumi/aws

and

@pulumi/awsx

as well?

Best to re-test with 3.43.0 - assuming that shows original error, I would log a GitHub issue about the aliases error