Sorry, another question. I also can't find how not to recreate the resource if, let's say, its name changes. To specify, I want to deliberately forbit resource recreation.

would protecting the resource be sufficient? https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#protect

thanks @broad-helmet-79436, I will try this. But I though there was something like 'ignore_recreate' in ResourceOptions, which is available in terraform

ignoreChanges @better-actor-92669

@broad-dog-22463, fantastic, thanks a lot!

opts=ResourceOptions(
                         depends_on=[cloud_pgsql_main_1],
                         ignore_changes=['name'],
                         protect=True,
                     ),

@better-actor-92669 what name is changing?

@broad-dog-22463, I will explain my use case. I want to create a GCP CloudSQL Postgres Database Instance and a Read Replica for it. Since GCP doesn't fully delete your database instance for a while, the name is reserved, so I've created a workaround like this:

def random_string(string_length=5):
    """Generate a random string of fixed length """
    letters = string.ascii_lowercase
    return ''.join(random.choice(letters) for _ in range(string_length))

to generate names for Database Instances in my test project, because I am experimenting with different settings and recreate instances very often. Then I utilise it:

MASTER_INSTANCE_NAME = config.get('psql_instance_name') or get_project() +\
                '-psql-main-1-' + random_string()

cloud_pgsql_main_1 =\
    DatabaseInstance('cloud_pgsql_main_1',
                     opts=ResourceOptions(
                         depends_on=[sql_admin_api],
                         ignore_changes=['name'],
                         protect=True,
                     ),
                     database_version='POSTGRES_11',
                     name=MASTER_INSTANCE_NAME,

Ah :) nice workaround eventual consistency

@broad-dog-22463 it seems like protect for python SDK is not working properly. When I set it to False it still says

error: Preview failed: refusing to delete protected resource

Did you run

pulumi up

after setting it to false, before making a change that forces recreation?

yes, I think it also depends on

ignore_changes=