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Pulumis default behaviour is to set the resources cloud name to a user set logical name + a pusdorandom suffix. See https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/names/#autonaming for more details.

Thanks for the reply. And that pseudorandom suffix (I was aware of that) will automatically change (or be different) when I change pulumi stacks (pulumi stack select)?

Yes its recently changed it used to be it was just random bytes from the operating systems crypto services, it's now a hash of stack name, resource name, and a count of how many times this resource has been re-created in this stack.

That's helpful. It would still make the environments to which a resource "belongs" opaque (i.e. in the web portal). I'm thinking I still might include an indicator in the resource group (Azure) so we can quickly look at a resource's resource group and know what environment it is. Thanks again.

You can typically get the current stack. In Go, it would be

ctx.Stack()

, but I imagine it’s available in other programs.

I've looked all over for that in C# - haven't found it yet. But I'm guessing you're right.

you probably don't want to introspect on stacks too much and let the configuration per-stack drive the differences transparently

The resource names shouldn't have to be unique except in cases where the Cloud service makes that requirement and they're not namespaced appropriately. This happens for S3 buckets, but not a lot of other resources. Generally, Pulumi autonaming is sufficient. If you want the stack to be obvious on a resource, tags are usually the best option.