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Did you copy/paste that exactly? I don't see `name` defined there.

<@UDEJ1F5SQ> yes, the name property is set via the first argument "instanceTemplate" and can't be omitted

There's also a separate `name` property that lets you override the auto-naming functionality. I wasn't sure if you set that too.

Sounds like a bug. Can you open an issue at <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/issues> ?

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/issues/143> is related - but that was fixed a year ago. I wonder if there is some remaining symptom here. 

<@UDEJ1F5SQ> <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-gcp/issues/227>, let me know if there's any additional info I can get for you regarding the issue