Is it possible to alter a resource’s

parent

without triggering a replacement, but in a way that can be versioned in Git and automatically deployed ? (I used to

pulumi stack export

, manually edit then

pulumi stack import

but I wonder if there’s a cleaner way to do this)

You should be able to do this with

aliases

. Here is a blog article I once wrote before I joined Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/cumundi-guest-post/

Very cool ! I legit never used

aliases

until now... but it sounds mighty useful Do you know if that can also be applied when altering the

provider

of a given resource ? (I’m using multiple providers in

pulumi-snowflake

because of different roles)

You can indeed migrate a resource from the default provider to a custom provider without any interruption. Since the provider is itself a resource, you can alias the provider to the

urn

of the default provider. Here is a code snippet in TS showing a similar scenario going from the default AWS provider to an explicit one: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/8959#issuecomment-1461297086 So, you don't alias it on the resource itself, but you do it on the attached provider.