For some things, apply will work. I hope this is sufficient for what you want to do, Ed. We also do plan to support event hooks for pre/post operations, like preUpdate, postDelete, etc. This is tracked by https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1691 Eager to hear whether you're successful with just apply here or if you need something richer. We might be able to get something working with dynamic providers if you do (https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/master/sdk/nodejs/dynamic/index.ts).