Support providing name for application when deploying

[mikkelhegn]

The cloud api supports defining a name for an application, when creating it. Today this is inferred from the spin.toml file on deployment.

It would be great to be able to define this as part of deployment. E.g. spin cloud deploy --name my-app

[lann]

Are you saying you want to allow deploying with a different name by specifying --name every time you deploy?

[mikkelhegn]

I think you're hinting at the identifier being id and not name. The behavior today to create a new app, would be to change the name in spin.toml, and I think it's a bit weird.

If the "same" spin.toml is deployed twice with two different names, I believe a new app should be created.

We might need id as well as an option, but I think a name need to be unique across a user's account today.

I don't think we need to be able to change the name of an application as part of deployment. Although I see there's an api for that.

[lann]

The behavior today to create a new app, would be to change the name in spin.toml, and I think it's a bit weird.

Yeah I think this is the underlying issue. There is nothing else in the manifest you have to change as an operational detail.