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am I missing something, or is there no way to specify a name for an EKS cluster with Pulumi?

```// EKS Cluster
const cluster = new eks.Cluster("test-cluster", {
  name: "test-cluster",
  version: "1.13",
  vpcId: vpcId,
  subnetIds: vpcPrivateSubnetIds,
  nodeSubnetIds: vpcPrivateSubnetIds,
  nodeAssociatePublicIpAddress: false,
  desiredCapacity: 3,
  maxSize: 3,
  minSize: 3,
  instanceType: "t3a.medium",
  nodePublicKey: sshPublicKey,
  instanceRole: eksWorkerRole,
  deployDashboard: false,
  userMappings: clusterAdmins.map(getClusterAdminMappingByUsername)
});```

with that, `pulumi preview` outputs:
```        + aws:eks/cluster:Cluster: (create)
            [urn=urn:pulumi:test::infrastructure::eks:index:Cluster$aws:eks/cluster:Cluster::test-cluster-eksCluster]
            [provider=urn:pulumi:test::infrastructure::pulumi:providers:aws::default_1_0_0_beta_1::08e235b2-6481-4732-82e5-e9fb91bc1d51]
            name      : "test-cluster-eksCluster-e204193"```

And it’s not assigning the “test-cluster” name?

it’s appending `eksCluster-randomID` to the name

Is eks.Ckuster your abstraction? I would have expected an aws.eks.Cluster in there

that’s copied and pasted from <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/crosswalk/aws/eks/>

Let me look at the eks codebase real quick

so `eks.Cluster` and `aws.eks.Cluster` are different things?

```
    // Create the EKS cluster
    const eksCluster = new aws.eks.Cluster(`${name}-eksCluster`, {
        roleArn: eksRole.apply(r =&gt; r.arn),
        vpcConfig: {
            securityGroupIds: [eksClusterSecurityGroup.id],
            subnetIds: subnetIds,
            endpointPrivateAccess: args.endpointPrivateAccess,
            endpointPublicAccess: args.endpointPublicAccess,
        },
        version: args.version,
        enabledClusterLogTypes: args.enabledClusterLogTypes,
    }, {
        parent: parent,
        provider: args.creationRoleProvider ? args.creationRoleProvider.provider : undefined,
    });
```

I guess if you need more fine grained control over the naming, then you might want to use the AWS provider directly?

then you can pass a name to the aws.eks.Cluster

sorry for the confusion here :disappointed:

I have created an issue to suggesting that the name passed to `new eks.Cluster()` is used to name the AWS resource: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-eks/issues/240>

+1 on this would really like to be able to modify name as part of eks.Cluster