Hi, I have a question about

name_prefix

- I found several existing issues about this so I'm not sure I should even use it. One of the issues: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6155 With pulumi resource you have to provide

resource_name

and if nothing else is set, this is used in the name of resource. eg. SNS Topic:

sns.Topic(
    "my-topic",
)

Results in the resource name

my-topic-1234

. - this at least gives the reference between actual resource and pulumi resource However when I add the

name_prefix

it overrides the resource name completely.

sns.Topic(
    "my-topic",
    name_prefix='my-prefix-'
)

Results in the resource name:

my-prefix-20210722092833209300000002

Is there any documentation about this behaviour? I assume this is inherited from terraform provider and may be resoveld with pulumi native provider which I heard about being in development, correct? Is it better for now to use

pulumi resource name

instead of name_prefix?

i don't think there's any documentation - name_prefix does indeed come from the terraform provider. I generally recommend not using it, and using pulumi's autonaming

Thank you for the confirmation!