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Is there a way to tell Pulumi to ignore an attribute of a resource when it decides which resources need to be updated / replaced?

The use-case I’m working on is DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster. Definition looks like this:

```new docean.KubernetesCluster(`${coreConfig.applicationName}-K8S`.toLowerCase(),
            {
                region: doConfig.region as docean.Region,
                version: "latest",
                nodePool: {
                    name: `${coreConfig.applicationName}-K8S-default`.toLowerCase(),
                    size: doConfig.nodeSize,
                    nodeCount:doConfig.nodeCount
                }
            },
            {
                provider: doProvider,
                parent: this
            }
        );```

The problem is with the `version: "latest"` part, on any subsequent `pulumi up`  updates it wants to replace the cluster, because the version saved will be the actual version (`1.16.2-do.0` right now) and not `latest` .

My guess is that the same replacement problem will also happen if I (want to) upgrade the cluster to the latest patch release: a new cluster will be created instead of upgrading the existing one.

There is a resource option `ignoreChanges` which can be used for this. 

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#ignorechanges>