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does doing a `pulumi refresh` before `pulumi up` not suffice? Are you working with resources that have state defined outside Pulumi that you would like to "reset"?

Currently, I’m purely using Pulumi to render Kubernetes manifests out to disk before manually applying them

But even if I didn’t render them to disk, I’m thinking of a CI scenario without any persistent state