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Is it possible to detect when Pulumi is running in watch mode to change resource behavior? For example, could a custom docker image resource be made that detects when Pulumi is running in watch mode and whenever there’s a change to source files, instead of rebuilding the image it syncs the files through a volume, allowing for stuff like hot-reloading? This would not be dissimilar from what Tilt and Skaffold allow you to do.

Yes, that should be possible. Can you file an issue in pulumi/pulumi?

cc <@UB3BGTV63>

Here it is: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3725>

I don’t really like the title that much so feel free to change it to something that’s more descriptive/searchable for Pulumi contributors :slightly_smiling_face:

I know that hot-reloading is a very specific React thing and might not be called that in other programming environments that support something similar