Hi Everyone Does anyone knows what is the longest name a Pul

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Hi Everyone Does anyone knows what is the longest name a Pulumi resource can have I have a function on my codebase that uses Hungarian notation generate resource names and I m worried it might be too long at some point a resource name would look like ` lt environment gt lt k8s cluster name gt lt namespace gt lt resource name gt `

gorgeous-country-43026 · Answer

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

some-flower-64874 · Answer

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

chilly-noon-57744 · Answer

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

gorgeous-country-43026 · Answer

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

gorgeous-country-43026 · Answer

If you wish to override that then provide ` metadata name your name `

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

< chilly noon 57744> 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

billowy-army-68599 · Answer

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

chilly-noon-57744 · Answer

Thank you I think I won t have any problems then