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due to the fact pulumi uses programming language instead of some DSL (like terraform), you’re free to write your own classes/helpers etc.
you can for example write a helper function:
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def generate_resource_name(name: str, org: str, tenant: str, org: environment):
   return f"{org}-{tenant}-{environment}-{name}"
and use that while creating resources:
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SomeResource(
   generate_resource_name("main"),
   name=generate_resource_name("main"),
   ...
)
Notice that you usually have 2 separate names: • the first argument is the name within pulumi itself • the second one is the name in cloud provider resource (e.g. name of the GKE cluster)
AFAIK, it’s not possible to alter the current autonaming scheme in pulumi though
so if you want to have full control over the names (including autonaming random suffix), things might get a little bit tricky (you’ll need to override the 
name
as I wrote above and it might cause some issues in case the resource must be recreated)
https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/#autonaming
Overriding auto-naming makes your project susceptible to naming collisions. As a result, for resources that may need to be replaced, you should specify 
deleteBeforeReplace: true
 in the resource’s options. This option ensures that old resources are deleted before new ones are created, which will prevent those collisions.
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@prehistoric-activity-61023 thanks for your reply and advice. According to this,
For cases that require specific names, you can override auto-naming by specifying a physical name. Most resources have a 
name
 property that you can use to name the resource yourself
If I understood well, I can override those auto-named resources which allow the 
name
attribute on their API specification, but then when doing so is when naming collisions might be presented (?) In my case I am using the 
StorageAccount
resource on python azure API, https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/azure-native/storage/storageaccount/#account_name_python it does not allow override the property name and the helper function I did was something like this:
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def generate_storage_account_name(name: str, number: int, org: str, app: str, env: str):
    return f"{name}{number}{org}{app}{env}"
And in the resource I am calling it in this way:
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# Create an Azure resource (Storage Account)
account = storage.StorageAccount(
    'main',
    resource_group_name=resource_group.name,
    account_name=generate_storage_account_name('sa', random.randint(1,100000), organization, application, environment),
    sku=storage.SkuArgs(
        name=storage.SkuName.STANDARD_LRS,
    ),
    kind=storage.Kind.STORAGE_V2)
It works and my storage account was named in that way
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> pulumi up
Previewing update (rhdhv/dev)

View Live: <https://app.pulumi.com/rhdhv/wmlab-infrastructure/dev/previews/549c2c34-853f-4fe0-b9f2-d5504525b073>

     Type                                     Name                      Plan
 +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack                      wmlab-infrastructure-dev  create
 +   ├─ azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup  resource_group            create
 +   └─ azure-native:storage:StorageAccount   main                      create

Resources:
    + 3 to create

Do you want to perform this update? details
+ pulumi:pulumi:Stack: (create)
    [urn=urn:pulumi:dev::wmlab-infrastructure::pulumi:pulumi:Stack::wmlab-infrastructure-dev]
    + azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup: (create)
        [urn=urn:pulumi:dev::wmlab-infrastructure::azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup::resource_group]
        [provider=urn:pulumi:dev::wmlab-infrastructure::pulumi:providers:azure-native::default_1_29_0::04da6b54-80e4-46f7-96ec-b56ff0331ba9]
        location         : "westeurope"
        resourceGroupName: "rhd-wmlab-dev"
    + azure-native:storage:StorageAccount: (create)
        [urn=urn:pulumi:dev::wmlab-infrastructure::azure-native:storage:StorageAccount::main]
        [provider=urn:pulumi:dev::wmlab-infrastructure::pulumi:providers:azure-native::default_1_29_0::04da6b54-80e4-46f7-96ec-b56ff0331ba9]
        accountName      : "sa99180rhdwmlabdev"
        kind             : "StorageV2"
        location         : "westeurope"
        resourceGroupName: output<string>
        sku              : {
            name: "Standard_LRS"
        }
I am right if I say that in cases when the 
name
property is not available to be overrided, like this case, so collisions errors names won’t be presented?
Hi @prehistoric-activity-61023 sorry for disturb you, I just add a new resource (a github repo) and the storage account I created with the helper function will be recreated as you mentioned.
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pulumi up
Previewing update (rhdhv/dev)

View Live: <https://app.pulumi.com/myorg/wmlab-infrastructure/dev/previews/846183e7-9532-4d57-a60a-f11e34d2be07>

     Type                                    Name                      Plan        Info
     pulumi:pulumi:Stack                     wmlab-infrastructure-dev
 +   ├─ github:index:Repository              wmlab-infra               create
 +-  └─ azure-native:storage:StorageAccount  main                      replace     [diff: ~accountName]
I am afraid I will have to check this thoroughfully,
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