diff --git a/.ci-mgmt.yaml b/.ci-mgmt.yaml
index 33d26e94750..ff509da056e 100644
--- a/.ci-mgmt.yaml
+++ b/.ci-mgmt.yaml
@@ -12,6 +12,18 @@ env:
   ARM_TENANT_ID: ${{ secrets.ARM_TENANT_ID }}
   ARM_CLIENT_SECRET: ${{ secrets.ARM_CLIENT_SECRET }}
   PULUMI_MISSING_DOCS_ERROR: true
+  # Would rather fail the build to force listing dependencies manually under plugins: than
+  # auto-install a floating dependency which may influence example generation and cause
+  # non-deterministic builds later on.
+  #
+  # Unfortunately this does not work yet because of e2e tests (example-based tests). Need to find a
+  # way to scope this env var so that it does not configure tests.
+  #
+  #     TestAccFrontdoor: no resource plugin 'pulumi-resource-random' found in the workspace at version v4.15.1 or on your $PATH
+  #     Test_sql/e2e: Error: error resolving type of resource random: internal error loading package "random": no resource plugin
+  #         'pulumi-resource-random' found in the workspace or on your $PATH
+  #
+  # PULUMI_DISABLE_AUTOMATIC_PLUGIN_ACQUISITION: true
 upstream-provider-repo: terraform-provider-azurerm
 makeTemplate: bridged
 plugins:
@@ -23,6 +35,11 @@ plugins:
     version: "0.0.15"
   - name: local
     version: "0.0.1"
+  - name: std
+    version: "1.4.0"
+  - name: terraform
+    kind: converter
+    version: "1.0.11"
 goBuildParallelism: 2
 runner:
   prerequisites: pulumi-ubuntu-8core
@@ -38,3 +55,4 @@ actions:
     - name: Run provider tests
       run: |
         cd provider && go test -v -json -count=1 -cover -timeout 2h -tags=${{ matrix.language }} -parallel 4 . 2>&1 | tee /tmp/gotest.log | gotestfmt
+pulumiConvert: 1
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4bb82e2fdc4..975d2991c7a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ JAVA_GEN := pulumi-java-gen
 TESTPARALLELISM := 10
 WORKING_DIR := $(shell pwd)
 PULUMI_PROVIDER_BUILD_PARALLELISM ?= -p 2
-PULUMI_CONVERT := 0
+PULUMI_CONVERT := 1
 
 development: install_plugins provider build_sdks install_sdks
 
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ install_plugins: .pulumi/bin/pulumi
 	.pulumi/bin/pulumi plugin install resource azuread 5.33.0
 	.pulumi/bin/pulumi plugin install resource time 0.0.15
 	.pulumi/bin/pulumi plugin install resource local 0.0.1
+	.pulumi/bin/pulumi plugin install resource std 1.4.0
+	.pulumi/bin/pulumi plugin install converter terraform 1.0.11
 
 lint_provider: provider
 	cd provider && golangci-lint run -c ../.golangci.yml