I wrote a component for some Azure networking in Python, and it's working well. However, I'm seeing it appending a random string to the names of things. How do I get it to stop that?

pulumi just does that by default for all resources, to prevent conflicts when recreating, using stacks, and a few other situations

Oh, good call! I'll check that out. I'm trying to import existing vnets into using a component, and this would cause a re-creation, which is not desireable.

oh, you want the import options then

I've imported the resources already, just trying to get the code to match.

in particular, there's a flow where

pulumi preview

can produce a template json that you can fill in resource IDs on and then hand to

pulumi import

Yeah, and so the appended string is a surprise. XD

the import flow will tell pulumi which realized resources match which code resources/pulumi URNs, but you gotta get their properties to match manually

Oh geez...No, my mistake was simpler than that. I was doing

self.virtual_network = azure_native.network.VirtualNetwork(f"vnet-{name}",
            resource_group_name=self.resource_group.name,
            address_space=azure_native.network.AddressSpaceArgs(
                address_prefixes=[vnet_cidr]    
            ),
            opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(parent=self.resource_group))

Instead of:

self.virtual_network = azure_native.network.VirtualNetwork(f"vnet-{name}",
            vritual_network_name = f"vnet-{name}", <----- Missing this
            resource_group_name=self.resource_group.name,
            address_space=azure_native.network.AddressSpaceArgs(
                address_prefixes=[vnet_cidr]    
            ),
            opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(parent=self.resource_group))

ah, yes

Yeah, this is after using Terraform for two years that I'm switching. So, there's a lot for me to catch up on.