When changing a name of a dynamic provide the deployment att

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When changing a name of a dynamic provide the deployment attempts to replace all resoruces with diff ~provider and fails on the first of them namespace is there any workaround

bored-river-53178 · Answer

`Type Name Status Info` `pulumi pulumi Stack stack test bfstack sales failed 1 error` `+ pulumi providers kubernetes <http k8s eu central 1 sales babelforce com|k8s eu central 1 sales babelforce com> created` `+ kubernetes core Namespace eu replacing failed diff ~provider 1 error` `Diagnostics ` `kubernetes core Namespace eu ` `error resource eu was not successfully created by the Kubernetes API server namespaces eu already exists` `pulumi pulumi Stack stack test bfstack sales ` `error update failed`

bored-river-53178 · Answer

while testing I just used dev as the name for the provider but now I want to change it to something more meaningful like a cluster name

bored-river-53178 · Answer

is there any way to do what I want without deleting everything and installing from scratch

bored-river-53178 · Answer

looks like aliases is the solution <https www pulumi com docs intro concepts programming model aliases>