Hi all, I'm working on some refactoring of my Pulumi project. How can I rename the

name

field of

Pulumi.yaml

gracefully? If I just modify the field in the file with Vim, that results in changing all URNs and recreating all the existing resources

$ cat Pulumi.yaml            
name: Infrastructure
runtime: dotnet
description: my infrastructure

V

name: NetworkInfra
runtime: dotnet
description: my network infrastructure

pulumi stack rename

can rename projects: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/pulumi_stack_rename/

We have limited experience with Pulumi using S3 as a backend; I’m not sure how namespacing/changing projects via

stack rename

works in that case. The (long) way we’ve done this is roughly: • export stack to json • change project name in yaml • find/replace old proj name --> new proj name in json • import stack • update config (old values are namespaced to the old stack name still) Unfortunately this has to be done on a stack-by-stack basis, so not fun when you have lots of envs. Would be great to know the way to use

stack rename

with just an S3 bucket. Maybe it’s just

project/stack

? 🙂 I guess I could’ve tried that first…

The docs say "fully-qualified stack name", which would be project/stack for local stacks.

Thank you — do the docs actually specify that anywhere, by the way? e.g. https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/stack/ doesn’t make that clear to me. It’s very helpful!

(I mean, the project/stack standard. I actually never thought of using the s3 backend as “local”, so that’s good to know as well.)

Yes, it's not clear, I'm inferring it from this line:

You can also rename the stack’s project by passing a fully-qualified stack name as well.

Thank you!

Has anybody had any success in renaming the

name

field of

Pulumi.yaml

(is it called a "project"?)

$ cat Pulumi.yaml            
name: Infrastructure
runtime: dotnet
description: my infrastructure

V

name: NetworkInfra
runtime: dotnet
description: my network infrastructure

If I just use Vim to modify the field, that results in changing all URNs and recreating all the existing resources. I'm using an S3 backend, fwiw.

pulumi stack rename NetworkInfra/network-infra

threw this error:

error: stack names are limited to 100 characters and may only contain alphanumeric, hyphens, underscores, or periods: "NetworkInfra/network-infra"

I think this will be fixed in the next cli release