Does anyone know how I can clear/delete a project from my pulumi setup? I'm storing state in my own aws s3 bucket and I ran this command:

pulumi new aws-typescript -n nginx-simple --dir ./projects/nginx-simple

Then I deleted the

./projects/nginx-simple

directory, then ran the same exact

pulumi new

command as before and it's telling me:

error: a project with this name already exists: nginx-simple

I checked through the state in the s3 bucket, and I don't see anything related to projects, only stacks. And there's no CLI option to remove or list what projects exist. According to the documentation:

A Pulumi project is any folder which contains a

Pulumi.yaml

file. When in a subfolder, the closest enclosing folder with a

Pulumi.yaml

file determines the current project. A new project can be created with

pulumi new

. A project specifies which runtime to use and determines where to look for the program that should be executed during deployments. Supported runtimes are

nodejs

,

python

,

dotnet

,

go

,

java

, and

yaml

.

So why is it that I deleted the directory that contains the project, but the pulumi CLI tells me that the project

nginx-simple

already exists? Where exactly is it storing the information about what projects have been created? How do I remove

nginx-simple

from that list, so I can run

pulumi new aws-typescript -n nginx-simple --dir ./projects/nginx-simple

again without receiving an error?

pulumi stack rm

all the stacks

But I'm trying to remove a project, not a stack

to remove a project, you remove all stacks from it 🙂

Removed all my stacks:

pulumi stack ls
NAME  LAST UPDATE  RESOURCE COUNT

And tried the

pulumi new

command again and I still get the error saying that a project with this name already exists: nginx-simple

what does

pulumi stack ls -a

show?

ohhh that helped shine some light on the situation

pulumi stack ls -a   
NAME                           LAST UPDATE  RESOURCE COUNT
organization/nginx-simple/dev  n/a          n/a

pulumi stack ls

only shows you the stacks in your current org, you need the

-a

to show everything

Well.. I was hopeful, but after explicitly deleting that stack via

pulumi stack rm organization/nginx-simple/dev

and

pulumi stack ls -a

shows no stacks at all:

pulumi stack ls -a                                                                                                                                         
NAME  LAST UPDATE  RESOURCE COUNT

Running the

pulumi new aws-typescript -n nginx-simple

command still tells me that

nginx-simple

project exists somehow??

There’s likely a directory still in your bucket

Ahh that was it! Thanks so much for your help! I probably would have been stuck on this at least another day or two before figuring this out

My pleasure!