Does anyone know if there's a way to access and modify the attributes of a default provider object? Failing that, has anyone worked out a way to automate replacing the provider object in an existing stack deployment to avoid having to recreate all of the resources?

aliases should handle that i believe

Can you elaborate?

if you look at the

diff

that happens when you change providers, it's doing a recreate because the

urn

is changing. If you alias the resource properly (https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/options/aliases/) it shouldn't do any recreation

Thanks! I'll take a look.

On this front (modify the attributes of a default provider object), it seems that: • aliasing the Provider works well for certain resources, but on others, things need to be replaced? Is this a problem with the resource or expected? (example is an Iam Policy on AWS. Lots of internal attributes getting dropped in addition, etc.)

~ name       : "colorado-external-dns-policy-3c3afa2" => "colorado-external-dns-policy-5e5f314"

• on the original question, is it possible to set aliases for the default provider? i.e. if you wanted to migrate back to the default provider? I cannot create a new provider w/ the name

default

, and I have not found a way to reference / modify the default provider.