Sorry or the troubles here. If you are using the latest released versions, then you should be able to pass the provider via to a component via:

providers: {kubernetes: k8sProvider}

. We've seen a few folks trip up on the difference between how CustomResources and ComponentResources get parameterized by providers, we're considering some sugar to make this simpler: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1802. This is effectively the same idea @helpful-vegetable-35581 notes in (b) above. cc @microscopic-florist-22719