why does pulumi add random suffix to bucket name

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tall-librarian-49374 · Answer

Check <https www pulumi com docs troubleshooting faq why do resource names have random hex character suffixes>

acceptable-stone-35112 · Answer

so Pulumi manages those aliases for me means if Pulumi service is not available I will not be able to access those resources by their logical names

acceptable-stone-35112 · Answer

e g in air gapped environment or when pulumi has downtime

tall-librarian-49374 · Answer

no the names are generated locally

tall-librarian-49374 · Answer

But if you use the Pulumi service and it s down hopefully not often you won t be able to do new updates

acceptable-stone-35112 · Answer

means this state is kept locally

acceptable-stone-35112 · Answer

I mean how would that result in same name on other machines its MD5 or smth

tall-librarian-49374 · Answer

It s a consistent hash based on the project stack name and something else which I don t remember

tall-librarian-49374 · Answer

gt means this state is kept locally Can be Pulumi service S3 Azure Storage or local file but that doesn t affect the hash generation