Hello I just finished writing this adorable little `forEach`

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Hello I just finished writing this adorable little `forEach` loop to setup my DNS zones in GCP and I just realized that if I m going to create DNS records in these zones I need to actually work with the output I need to somehow appropriately chain the resource dependencies so the order of operations are correct I started going down the road of using `eval` to dynamically declare the const and that was when I realized I should probably consult with others and see if anyone has advice to give Thank you in advanced

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

this should work okay what do you want the end result to be

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

also you might want to make this a component

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

gt this should work okay what do you want the end result to be Thank you for taking the time to respond The above codeblock works just fine the problem is I now need to create A records in this zone and that involves referencing the zone I ve just created I could just type the name of the zone as a string but then the dependency chain would be broken

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

gt also you might want to make this a component I will look into this I m not immediately sure what you mean though

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

re components <https www pulumi com docs intro concepts resources components >

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

Ah i see do you want to add different records to each zone so you want to have them stored that way

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

I added a bit to the bottom of the script I posted earlier to hopefully give more insight into the problem I m running into I probably should have included that portion in the first place

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

gt Ah i see do you want to add different records to each zone so you want to have them stored that way I m sorry I m having a little trouble understanding what you mean by So you want to have them stored that way I do want to add a variety of DNS records to each zone Should I just manually declare the dependency It seems like the wrong thing to do since I do need the output from the zone declaration so I might as well be looking for ways to capture the output from the `forEach` loop I ll definitely be running into this problem later

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

this should work fine ```zones forEach zone = gt somehow declare const here to work with the output zone name and establish deps const myZone = new gcp dns ManagedZone zone name zone args zone opts new gcp dns RecordSet foo name <http foo nuggies life|foo nuggies life> managedZone myZone id type A ttl 300 rrdatas 8 8 8 8 ```

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

if you want to store the zone id for each created zone you should just be able to do an `append` or such like in the `forEach`

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

sorry for the bad formatting

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

In that script wouldn t `const myZone` be set twice one per zone created

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

oh I see you have the DNS record created inside the foreach loop

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

Because the relationship of zones to DNS records is not 1 1 I don t think that would work for my use case

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

it would get overridden on each loop but you re creating the record inside the loop too If you want to create records outside the loop you can just append the id to a new data structure and loop over that

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

let me throw together an example give me a few

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

gt you can just append the id to a new data structure and loop over that This makes sense My brain has been pretty fried over this for a minute but that should work perfectly

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

Thank you again for taking the time to respond to my question and help me with this I really appreciate it smile cat

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

example <https github com jaxxstorm pulumi examples blob main typescript aws multiple buckets index ts> Couple of different ways to approach it but ultimately you re just storing data for later use

broad-parrot-2692 · Answer

This is what I ended up doing thank you again for helping me find a solution meow party