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This sounds along the lines of <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1518|https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1518> and in particular the ideas in <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1518#issuecomment-535677365|https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1518#issuecomment-535677365>. This is something we’d love to see added to Pulumi. There's some design details that will need to be fleshed out, but if you are interested in working on this, happy to provide pointers on where to start in terms of designing and implementing an approach to this. 

If what you are looking for is related to fundamentally different to what's there - also interested in capturing your needs either in that issue or a new one. 

Even though both are the same issue, the 2nd link sounds closest.  Does it make sense to build something like that in or just provide a way for it to be built via letting the resource_name be set on a callback, like tags?

Here's what I came up with for auto-naming resources in C#.  <https://gist.github.com/dbeattie71/36514ffaa14cfdcd34fd9c062e8d03e0>