Is there an annotation or something I can use to force recreation of some resources?

How about this? https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/pulumi/#CustomResourceOptions-deleteBeforeReplace

@lemon-monkey-228 a common practice here is to calculate the MD5 of the data you want to force a reload, and then set that as an env var in the Kubernetes deployment etc

@glamorous-australia-21342 that’s what I was after. I thought I’d seen something like this before

@billowy-army-68599 to give another example where I’ve found this to be necessary: I have an Job that happened to fail through its allowed retries, so it was baiscally stuck. If I did

pulumi up

, it would give an error from the kube API saying the job has failed too many times. The only recourse was to delete the job manually and run

pulumi refresh

to sync up the state.