--- title: "Preview ESC Changes with Environment Overrides" url: https://daily.dev/posts/preview-esc-changes-with-environment-overrides-7xak0juik source_url: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/preview-esc-environment-changes-with-draft-references type: article source: "Pulumi" published: 2026-07-23T17:13:51.128Z updated: 2026-07-23T20:13:01.710Z tags: ["iac", "pulumi", "secrets-management"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Preview ESC Changes with Environment Overrides **[Pulumi](https://daily.dev/sources/pulumi)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pulumi ESC now supports a new `--override-env` flag in the Pulumi CLI that lets teams preview configuration changes — including unapproved drafts — against a stack before promoting them. The flag works with all Pulumi operations (`preview`, `up`, `refresh`, `destroy`) and supports overriding multiple environments at once, including environments imported indirectly via the import chain. This is especially useful for validating draft ESC environments as part of an approval workflow, or for one-off debugging without modifying stack config. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Deletion Protection for Pulumi ESC Environments](https://daily.dev/posts/deletion-protection-for-pulumi-esc-environments-a21bglyng) · Pulumi · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Pulumi ESC: Open Approvals](https://daily.dev/posts/pulumi-esc-open-approvals-7m8zjf6fb) · Pulumi · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Policy Packs Can Now Access Pulumi ESC Environments](https://daily.dev/posts/policy-packs-can-now-access-pulumi-esc-environments-p0xrcszmf) · Pulumi · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac), [#pulumi](https://daily.dev/tags/pulumi), [#secrets-management](https://daily.dev/tags/secrets-management) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/preview-esc-changes-with-environment-overrides-7xak0juik)