Hey y'all - I'm sure this question has been asked before but Google and the Pulumi AI aren't helping me find an answer. I want to tag a Azure resource I am creating with the date it was created. My idea is that I need to instantiate a string when a stack is created, pulling the current date and 'saving' that. Then when I

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the next day it doesn't try to change the tag. I tried

class CurrentDateComponent(pulumi.ComponentResource):
    def __init__(self, name: str, opts: Optional[pulumi.ResourceOptions] = None):
        super().__init__('custom:resource:CurrentDateComponent', name, None, opts)
        self.date = datetime.now(UTC).date().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')  # Store the current UTC date in ISO format

current_date = CurrentDateComponent("currentDate").date

and this seems to work. But, the resource shows as

creating

the entire time the stack is being created. What is an easy way to do this?

Why did you make a component resource for that? Can't you just tag the resource with

datetime.now(UTC).date().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

directly?

current_date = datetime.now(UTC).date().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')

resource1 = SomeAzureResource(..., tags={"created_at": current_date})

resource2 = SomeAzureResource(..., tags={"created_at": current_date})

This should update the resource every time you run

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if the value of

current_date

has changed compared to the previous run.