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I would assume this is a cloud provider specific thing. For example in Azure limits are ridiculously low and in many cases names must be globally unique (meaning, not only in your own subscription but over all subscriptions in whole of Azure)

Sometimes the limits are (were) tighter in Pulumi than in azure (usually quickly fixed when identified) , other times (storage accounts) its just :sob:

Maybe I'm confused. Let me try to give a concrete situation. When I create a new K8s ConfigMap using `new k8s.core.v1.ConfigMap(name, &lt;other args&gt;)` . Is this name the actual configmap name or just a reference to the configmap on Pulumi state? Or maybe both?

It is not the final name you'll see in kubernetes. Final name is that plus generated suffix

If you wish to override that then provide `{metadata: {name: "your-name"}}`

<@U01QUKUMRC5> the property you're referring to is the resource name, which then forms the resource URN. I'm double checking with the team on what the upper bound is.
the resource name is used to autogenerate names if you don't explicitly set one, so some providers may throw errors if your names are too long. You unfortunately have to consider both of these when naming resources

It sounds like the upper limit will be about 4MB, which is GRPc's max message size. It'll have to be very long to reach that :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you! I think I won't have any problems then.