In the pulumi docs I ve seen name logical name and resource

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In the pulumi docs I ve seen name logical name and resource name all used apparently interchangeably see which is confusing me and my team when we re talking about these entities Is one of these monikers preferred over the others

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

You may have already read through this based on your first link but tries to explain this a bit more In general name and logical name refer to the name you ve provided to the resource in your pulumi code based on `name` as in this bit of code ```let res = new Resource name args options ``` When defined this way Pulumi will auto name the physical resource e g the resource name appending a random suffix This is generally helpful for resources that require unique names and is explain in more

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

So in the case of ```let role = new aws iam Role my role ``` The name and logical name of this resource is `my role` The resource name or physical name of this resource at AWS would end up being something like `my role d7c2fa0`

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

You can turn off this auto naming by explicitly providing a `name` property as in ```let role = new aws iam Role my role name my role ```

cold-motorcycle-78950 · Answer

ahh ok so name == logical name and resource name == physical name I think I ve gotten myself confused because the first positional argument for pulumi resource constructors in node is `name` see but in python it s `resource name` see which made me reason that `name` == `resource name` But I guess that s not the case

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

Ah that is confusing Especially in this case because EC2 instances don t actually have physical names at AWS anyway

gentle-diamond-70147 · Answer

They re assigned IDs and you can add a Name tag to see a name in the AWS console