Some commands with -s and full stack name flag require Pulumi.yaml

[wclr]

What happened?

I'm using atomation api to launch pulumi programs, so I don't have Pulumi.yaml. Want to rename the stack, so I try rename command and get:

pulumi stack rename stack-new-name --stack user/proj/stack-name
error: no Pulumi.yaml project file found (searching upwards from ..). If you have not created a project yet, use `pulumi new` to do so: no project file found

Other commands too require the file, though some don't, for example, pulumi stack rm --stack user/proj/stack-name works without Pulumi.yaml.

Adding simple Pulumi.yaml with name and runtime works, but seems that it should not be required.

Example

pulumi stack rename stack-new-name --stack user/proj/stack-name2

Output of pulumi about

CLI
Version 3.97.0
Go Version go1.21.5
Go Compiler gc

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[justinvp]

Thanks for opening the issue, @wclr. We should be able to make rename work when the Pulumi.yaml file isn't found. We're really looking for the old Pulumi.<stack-name>.yaml containing the stack config so it can be renamed to the new stack name, but if we can't find it, it's reasonable to still allow the rename to work (though, we may want to emit a warning in that case).

[justinvp]

Other commands too require the file

@wclr, do you recall the other commands?

[wclr]

Well, I think there are multiple, for example destroy, you should probably check them all.