seeing this issue come up pulumi keeps attempting to recreate a service that can’t init (wrong labels in the selector). after fixing the label selector and preparing to update,

pulumi refresh

fails to complete:

Diagnostics:
  kubernetes:core:Service: XXXXXXXXX
    error: Preview failed: 2 errors occurred:

    * Resource 'XXXXXXXXX' was created but failed to initialize
    * Service does not target any Pods. Application Pods may failed to become alive, or field '.spec.selector' may not match labels on any Pods

error: an error occurred while advancing the preview

the failed resource is never added to state, and the new resource with the fixed label can’t be created because there is a name collision with the “tainted” resource

Hmm... It seems to me the refresh should fail?

the problem is that the updates attempt to create the service

Hmm.