@white-balloon-205 is there an example of using the provider-level

deleteBeforeReplace

option? Related issue: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1620

Is https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/blob/master/resources.go#L512 what you are thinking of?

aeeehm, 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?

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.

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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.

I 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.