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I think you're looking for a Component Resource:
<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/>

You can define a class with sane defaults that can be overridden

I have an example somewhere if you need one

<https://github.com/jaxxstorm/pulumi-automationapi-workshop/tree/main/content/lab-02>

Ah, that looks like what I’m after. Thanks!

you can either import them locally from a file, or publish them to pypi to reuse them

<@UCWG26BH7> Is there any way to skip defining all the arguments to a particular resource again?

Like I want my resource to be a drop-in replacement to the `gcp.organizations.Project` resource. I still want it to accept all the same kwargs, etc.

I just want the ability to change the default values.

i'm finding it hard to visualize what you're saying, would you mind sharing some pseudo code?

I basically want this: <https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_module_defaults.html>

I want the ability to specify a set of default arguments to Resources so that I:
1) don’t have to maintain an entire resource definition
2) Don’t clobber user-specified values
3) Can retroactively go back into Pulumi code and insert my custom modules with as little friction as possible.

ahh, yeah we don't have that as a built in, you'd have to specify the values for your class and then pass them through to the resources

actually let me get someone smarter to chime in, standby

This is where I am almost envious of monkey patching in Ruby. :smile:

And then I realize that those are Bad Thoughts.

I think you’ll have to create a wrapper function with the defaults defined to do that.

Yeah, that’s sort of what I’m trying to avoid.

Because it’s just a ton of Boilerplate.

well, don’t know what to tell you friend.

Maybe you’ll come up with a better way and then you can tell us about it