Allow helm charts to disable autonaming

[jaxxstorm]

Many Pulumi users do not want to use autonaming on their resources for a variety of good reasons. Our current helm implementation only allows this if the chart has a fullNameOverride value.

We don't expose a name property like we do with many other resources, which makes this exceptionally difficult. You can sort of work around it with transformations, but it's not very user friendly.

We should implement a name property for all resources in the Component to allow users to have flexibility over their naming

[headconnect]

The current behavior is that helm charts take their name from the pulumi name - which is usually more verbose than the desired result. This can lead to more complex deployments over time - for instance where helm charts are deployed to multiple clusters (requiring unique pulumi names so as to avoid URN conflicts) - and ingresses are deployed separately (which would require special logic to ensure the selectors go to the specific instance). Essentially, instead of having two clusters with "prometheus", you get two clusters with "cluster1-prometheus" and "cluster2-prometheus" even though it's fairly apparent which cluster is which.

Decoupling the chart name from the pulumi name would be highly beneficial (though please ensure the pulumi name is what's reflected in the stack URNs once the chart is expanded)

[ghost]

You can sort of work around it with transformations, but it's not very user friendly.

Any chance you can give an example of this? I'd be happy if my nginx ingress controller was not named nginx-ingress-ingress-nginx-controller (which is made worse by the fact that my applications need to refer to it as http://nginx-ingress-ingress-nginx-controller.nginx since it is in the nginx namespace)

[EronWright]

I believe the ask here is to support --release-name parameter on helm template, which defaults to the Chart component name.

[EronWright]

This is fixed in Chart v4 since it provides a name input to set the release name. I would still recommend that people set the fullNameOverride in preference to this.