Is there any way to expand an

Output<Resource[]>

to create child resources based on each

Resource

, without creating resources inside a

.apply()

? https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/5392#issuecomment-1203668256

No. Were the resources created based on another array, maybe of names or something? You could use that as your starting point. This is the same problem as with awsx.ec2.Vpc: your code cannot know how many subnets will be created, you need to work with Promises or Outputs. Even though you may have hardcoded public and private subnets, three AZs (therefore 6 subnets), you cannot have non-future references to those known 6 items.

Got it. I'm specifically asking about

gcp.certificatemanager.DnsAuthorization

. It returns an

Output<DnsAuthorizationDnsResourceRecord[]>

, and then for each

DnsAuthorizationDnsResourceRecord

we need to create a matching DNS record. It seems like the way to do it is with

.apply()

, even though that causes the previews to be wrong. https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/certificatemanager/dnsauthorization/#state_dnsresourcerecords_nodejs

Yeh you have to do this inside Apply at the moment. You might want to use

--target

to just create the certificate manager and then do a preview for the other resources that should then be correct.