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You can use the Random package to get a _stable_ random string that you could use as a suffix.

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/random/#RandomString>

thanks! I’ll try this out in the morning.

Whenever I declare
```const id = new random.RandomId("id", {byteLength: 8});```
I always get
```    error: Duplicate resource URN 'urn:pulumi:dev::folding-foundation::random:index/randomId:RandomId::id'; try giving it a unique name```

if I rename it and try to deploy, I get the same error. I haven’t tried using the generated id in any of the resources yet.

it doesn’t seem to matter what the name is, and I’m only making this one call to the `random` package.

for instance
```    const idasdf = new random.RandomId("id-asdf", {byteLength: 8});

    error: Duplicate resource URN 'urn:pulumi:dev::folding-foundation::random:index/randomId:RandomId::id-asdf'; try giving it a unique name```

I figured it out. I forgot that I’m using multiple providers so the id was being used multiple times.

doh! I hadn’t noticed `computeEnvironmentNamePrefix`. It’s unfortunate that you can’t set the length of the id to generate, but this does what I need.

You can set the length of `RandomString`, but `computeEnvironmentNamePrefix` is likely easier in the long run.