i asked a related question in the #kubernetes channel, but is there a way to generate my own auto-naming using the internal logic? i have two resources with cyclic dependencies (k8s pod that needs to know the name of its service)

is a static name for the service an option?

Easiest way today is to create your own function to generate names and use that everywhere. We have https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1518 open to support a more first-class way.