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discussed here: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2059

Until #2059 is addressed, note that you can move things into components if you want - and use

aliases

on the instance of the component to adopt the existing resources without having to replace anything. 2059 is definitely the most direct solution to this scenario though.

hm, what if I

dummyResource(name, {}, { alias : pulumi.runtime.getRootResource, provider: mynewGlobalProvider})

? would it reparent all resources under dummy resource and as a result make all resources use new provider by default?

I do not believe that would work - though I'll admit I've never thought to try that specific approach 🙂. If it does - that's an intriguing workaround for 2059.

Didn't work 🙂

class DummyRoot extends pulumi.ComponentResource {
   constructor(name: string, opts : pulumi.ComponentResourceOptions) {
      super("dummy", name, {}, opts)
      this.registerOutputs({})
   }
}

new DummyRoot("dummy", { provider: provider, aliases: [pulumi.runtime.getRootResource() as Promise<pulumi.URN>] });
new gcp.compute.Network("vpc_network", {})

The way I handled this in python (to handle localstack switching) was to define an

opts()

that inserted providers if there's no parent, eg:

foo.Bar('MyBar', ..., **opts())

shuffling data between stacks

What precisely did you have in mind here? We have the following tools: 1. StackReference 2.

import

3.

aliases

Depending on which versions of this you are trying to do - one or more of those should help?