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Hi what’s the best practice for multiple people working on the same dev stack? Right now our dev stack sets up multiple docker containers locally (with Pulumi generated names) and every time someone’s computer restarts, the next `pulumi up` fails with an error `container XXX cannot be deleted because it cannot be found` (this is not the exact error message) because someone else did `pulumi up` on the dev stack and the container names no longer match.

So multiple developers are trying to deploy the same stack but locally to their machines? Why aren't you just using a separate stack per developer?

OK so that’s the best practice? The dev stack is the same setup for all developers so I wasn’t sure if creating a stack per developer was the right move.

If your just creating local docker containers then yes, I think the best setup would be each developer just has their own stack for the docker containers on their machine.