This is probably a really noob question. The "getting started" azure-csharp tutorial generates unique names by appending random alphanumerics at the end of the names for the resources. Is it possible to prevent that / force the naming to follow a different convention such as a set prefix on all the resources?

hey Stacy! short answer is "yes" https://www.pulumi.com/docs/troubleshooting/faq/#why-do-resource-names-have-random-hex-character-suffixes you may have some unintended side effects though

Thanks! I appreciate the information and the details about how this model is beneficial.