<@UB3BGTV63> is there an example of using the prov...
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glamorous-printer-66548
10/11/2018, 12:00 AM@white-balloon-205 is there an example of using the provider-level
deleteBeforeReplacew
white-balloon-205
10/11/2018, 12:05 AM
Is https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/blob/master/resources.go#L512 what you are thinking of?
g
glamorous-printer-66548
10/11/2018, 12:09 AMaeeehm, I thought it is possible to set some provider level configuration “deleteBeforeReplace” (configurable via pulumi config) from your wording in #1620 but now I probably have misunderstood this. Its probably a hardcoded parameter in the provider source code right now?
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white-balloon-205
10/11/2018, 12:12 AM
Yes - currently it's hardcoded into certain resources in the provider source. #1620 is all about making that something you can set at resource creation time.
g
glamorous-printer-66548
10/11/2018, 12:14 AM😿
glamorous-printer-66548
10/11/2018, 12:15 AMwhat i don’t understand is why this works in terraform without explicitly setting some deleteBeforeReplace-like option or similar. Shouldn’t pulumi simply mirror the behaviour of the terraform gcp provider?
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white-balloon-205
10/11/2018, 12:23 AM
The terraform engine schedules deletes before creates by default. Pulumi does creates before deletes by default. This is a decision that the deployment engine makes, not the providers themselves (they just describe how to do a Create, Read, Update or Delete against the cloud provider).
Combined with autonaming, the Pulumi approach avoids downtime for a broad range of updates by default.
We absolutely need to fix #1620 so that this is something users can control as needed.
g
glamorous-printer-66548
10/11/2018, 12:27 AMI see, makes sense, thanks. Might be worth to document this fundamental difference in the default engine behaviour somewhere for folks like me having a terraform background.