I’m leaving this open ended in case I’ve misunderstood something but… That seems counter intuitive, my assumption is that Pulumi manages state, if that contract is broken, then the tool becomes unreliable (I am not saying that is the case!) I am just saying that if the only thing I change between “pulumi up” is the

replica

count then that’s the only thing I want to change. Docker today already has the concept of layer hash. If no layer has changed, then that means no new image is necessary.