Hi all. Quick question, I think I managed to come into a weird state after importing a resource from Azure. Now pulumi want to replace the resource completely just because the name is different(?).

+-  ├─ azure:network:ApplicationGateway extgateway replace [diff: ~name]

Is it possible to recover the stack from this state? setting the

name

and

pulumi up

, then remove

name

will just revert me back into the same state.

you can specify the other name in "aliases" so it will know they're the same

Thanks for your reply @better-rainbow-14549. But that did not seem to work 😞 1. Added alias "extgatewaya4f45d9d" as resourceopts 2.

pulumi up

I get the same result:

++azure:network/applicationGateway:ApplicationGateway: (create-replacement)
        [id=/subscriptions/*****/resourceGroups/*****/providers/Microsoft.Network/applicationGateways/extgatewaya4f45d9d]
        [urn=urn:pulumi:*****::*****::azure:network/applicationGateway:ApplicationGateway::extgateway]
        [provider=urn:pulumi:*****::*****::pulumi:providers:azure::default_2_1_0::]
      ~ name: "extgatewaya4f45d9d" => "extgatewayda1ac9a0"
    +-azure:network/applicationGateway:ApplicationGateway: (replace)
        [id=/subscriptions/*****/resourceGroups/*****/providers/Microsoft.Network/applicationGateways/extgatewaya4f45d9d]
        [urn=urn:pulumi:*****::*****::azure:network/applicationGateway:ApplicationGateway::extgateway]
        [provider=urn:pulumi:*****::*****::pulumi:providers:azure::default_2_1_0::]
      ~ name: "extgatewaya4f45d9d" => "extgatewayda1ac9a0"

hmm not sure then tbh that's worked for me