Config Doesn't Work: Expects Project Name and Namespace

[rawkode]

Using Pulumi 1.1.0

Created a stack with pulumi stack init production --secrets-provider="gcpkms: ...
Selected stack with pulumi stack select production
Set some config with pulumi config set telegraf:version "1.12"

Pulumi.production.yaml looks like:

secretsprovider: gcpkms:...
encryptedkey: secret-key
config:
  telegraf:version: "1.12"

Inside my code, I have:

const data = {
  telegrafVersion: config.require("telegraf:version"),
}

Running a pulumi up responds with:

 pulumi up
Previewing update (production):

     Type                 Name                       Plan       Info
 +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack  devrel-metrics-production  create     1 error
 
Diagnostics:
  pulumi:pulumi:Stack (devrel-metrics-production):
    error: Missing required configuration variable 'devrel-metrics:telegraf:version'
        please set a value using the command `pulumi config set devrel-metrics:telegraf:version <value>`

[rawkode]

NB: I did try the config set command with the project name too:

╰ pulumi config set devrel-metrics:telegraf:version "1.12"
error: invalid configuration key: could not parse devrel-metrics:telegraf:version as a configuration key (configuration keys should be of the form `<namespace>:<name>`)

[ellismg]

I'm guessing that config here is a local which you have assigned to the result of new pulumi.Config(). The way the config system works is that values set as <namespace>:<name>. If you set a value on the command line that does not have a colon in it, then we assume it is in the namespace for your project (here that's devrel-metrics). Since there is a colon, we assume this value is in the telegraf namespace (similar to how if you set gcp:region we use gcp as the namespace and region as the key.

When constructing the Config object, if you don't pass a namespace, we use the current project as the namespace.

So in this case, you would want to do something like (new pulumi.Config("telegraf")).require("version");

[nesl247]

I think he forgot to close this out. It was already resolved in Slack.

[rawkode]

Yeah. It wasn't clear to me that the namespace was the project name by default. Closing.

Thanks for your help

[1tmb]

Would be great for https://www.pulumi.com/learn/building-with-pulumi/secrets/ to be expanded to explain this. Found this on a chance google after having the same problem as the OP. Cheers

[ericrudder]

@interurban Want to take a look at the doc here?

[RDavis3000]

2024 here, spent 2 hours trying to get this to work