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how do I override the generated ID of a resource?

Is it of an imported resource? If a resource is created, then Pulumi knows its ID. There would be no reason to change the ID.

Or do you mean the name? Which looks like the name arg, with a random suffix?

i need to manage the exact name manually because of circular dependencies

Namable resources have a _name_ property, different to its _name_ arg. You can set that.

It is usually not needed; the only times I've seen a real need for that is when the resource's name is used in an unmanaged (and usually, legacy) resource.

Recursion sounds like a good thing to avoid in infrastructure architecture :slightly_smiling_face:

Circular dependencies can often be avoided, but if not, then a well-known name works.

I've got an Azure WindowsFunctionApp, where I'm using the default hostname (because it's not important and I can't be arsed, which has an OAuth registration, which needs the redirect URL

And that can't be created after the resource you want to rename?

nope, UUIDs generated by the OAuth stuff need to be passed to the app config

Fair enough. Then given that you don't want to pass the host's name into the host when creating it, a well-known name sounds reasonable. Note that this will cause problems when updating via delete-recreate, and it may prevent you deploying twice to the same account.

and yeah, just passing `name` handled that, cool